Maasai responses to climate change in Kenya

Maasai responses to climate change in Kenya

 

Climate change has especially strong impacts in the Eastern African drylands where institutions and governance systems are weak. In Kenya, the herds of the formerly nomadic Maasai pastoralists have been suffering from persistent drought. The paper “Climate change responses among the Maasai community in Kenya” (2017, 13pp) by Walter Leal Filho et al published in the journal Climatic Change (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-017-2087-9) describes how climate change affects the Maasai and how they have adapted in terms of behaviour and diet.

Posted on 20 October 2017 in Pastoralism & Climate Change