Pastoralist Livelihoods & Nutrition (page 10)
Alternatives to evicting Maasai from Ngorongoro, Tanzania
The Tanzanian Government is trying to force thousands of Maasai people off the Ngorongoro conservation area through harassment and restrictions, such as banning crop cultivation and limiting access to rivers and rangelands for livestock. This crisis points to an increasing tension between nature conservation and local livelihoods in Africa. But Pablo Manzano and Lucas Yamat […]
Innovations for pastoralists & agropastoralists in African drylands
In the scoping paper “Innovations for pastoralists and agro-pastoralists in fragile and conflict-affected areas” (2022, 36pp), Christabell Makokha et al identify 38 innovations for pastoralists and agro-pastoralists in the Horn of Africa and the Sahel. The study was carried out because it had been recognised that, in recurring and protracted humanitarian crises, there were few […]
Maasai women’s empowerment & food security in Tanzania
The article “Women’s empowerment, food security and nutrition of pastoral communities in Tanzania” by Alessandra Galiè et al (2019, published in Global Food Security 23: 125–134) is based on a study of the relationship between Maasai women’s empowerment, household food security, and maternal and child diet diversity (as one indicator of nutrition security) in Tanzania. […]
Empowering women through participatory rangeland management
A key objective in piloting Participatory Rangeland Management (PRM) in Kenya and Tanzania was to support empowerment of pastoral women – to improve access to material, human and social resources; to enable women to have greater control over setting goals and taking action to achieve them; and to improve women’s wellbeing and capacity to make […]
Governing the periphery: Ethiopia’s PSNP in Somali Region
The change in relationship between pastoralists and central government brought about by Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) is explored in the article “Development, governmentality and the sedentary state: the productive safety net programme in Ethiopia’s Somali pastoral periphery” by Getu Demeke Alene et al (The Journal of Peasant Studies 2021 DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2021.1945044). The case […]