Pastoralist Livelihoods & Nutrition (page 5)
Institutional rhetoric vs local reality: Burunge WMA, Tanzania
Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) are meant to promote wildlife conservation and rural development in Tanzania and enhance local livelihoods. In the paper, Institutional rhetoric versus local reality: a case study of Burunge Wildlife Management Area, Tanzania (2018) by Rose Kicheleri et al, published in SAGE Open 8(2), the authors found that the participation of local […]
Maasai delegation lobbying in Europe for their rights
In May-June 2023, a delegation of Maasai representatives is visiting several European countries, seeking international support to halt the ongoing forced evictions and human rights abuses against the Maasai pastoralists in Loliondo and Ngorongoro in northern Tanzania. See the press release in English, French and German. In Germany, the Maasai spoke with representatives from the […]
Maasai rights in Ngorongoro, Tanzania
The Ngorongoro Crater in northeastern Tanzania is a great tourist attraction. It is also home to Maasai pastoralists, who have been struggling for their human and civil rights since 1958, when they were resettled in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) by the colonial government after they were evicted from Serengeti area. The book Maasai rights in […]
Making green energy safe for pastoralists
One of the authors of the study on Pastoralism-and-large-scale-REnewable-energy-and-green-hydrogen-projects, Hussein Wario, Director of the Centre for Research & Development in Drylands (CRDD) in northern Kenya, gave his perspective on the study findings in a blog for Project Syndicate “Making green energy safe for pastoralists“ – also available in Spanish (Que la energiá verde sea segura para […]
Resilience & adaptation of pastoral herd mobility in West Darfur, Sudan
The dynamics of herd mobility in West Darfur, Sudan, a region affected by persistent conflict, is reported in the article “The resilience and adaptation of pastoralist livestock mobility in a protracted conflict setting: West Darfur, Sudan” (2023, Nomadic Peoples 27: 3-31, doi: 10.3197/np.2023.270102) by Hussein Sulieman and Helen Young. They examine the annual cycle and […]