Pastoralist Livelihoods & Nutrition (page 13)
Ngorongoro Maasai to be evicted
The Oakland Institute has brought out a new report on pastoralists in northern Tanzania: The looming threat of eviction: the continued displacement of the Maasai under the guise of conservation in Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) (2021, 32pp). It reveals the Tanzanian Government’s plans to evict 82,000 residents – mostly Maasai – from their land. This […]
Bring back herder conservationists in Kenya
In northern Kenya, conservancies are regarded in conventional development circles as a panacea to poaching, human–wildlife conflict and land degradation. In his article “Bring back the herder conservationist” (June 2021), published in the citizens’ e-platform The Elephant, Hussein Wario of the Centre for Research and Development in the Drylands (CRDD) reveals how the nearly complete […]
Impact of COVID-19 on livestock & livelihoods
In “Covid-19, livestock and livelihoods: a discussion paper for the Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS)” (2020, 22pp), Andy Catley reviews the impacts of Covid-19 on livestock keepers in lower-income countries, and on providers of livestock services and programmes. It also reviews the responses of livestock keepers and organisations to the pandemic. It is based […]
Contribution of livestock to Sudanese economy
In the report “The contribution of livestock to the Sudanese economy” (2012, 56pp) commissioned by Inter-Governmental Authority on Development’s Livestock Policy Initiative (IGAD LPI), Roy Behnke & Hala Mohamed Osman assess the contribution of livestock to Sudan’s national economy. Conventional GDP accounting ignores some benefits that people derive from livestock in subsistence-oriented economies, when households […]
Hybrid pastoralists: Turkana adapt to development interventions
With development interventions, Turkana pastoralists have adapted to the new situation and built up new ways of cooperation between the pastoralists in the rangelands and the Turkana who are no longer actively practising pastoralism and often live in towns. In the working paper “Hybrid pastoralists – development interventions and new Turkana identities” (2014, 30pp) published […]