I then move eastward to Longido district, Tanzania, where varying agendas in land tenure security and conservation have resulted in the promotion of land-use planning in areas where Maasai pastoralist transgress boundaries to maintain their livelihoods. I provide an ethnography of mapping practice ...
The Simanjiro plains, east of Tarangire National Park in Northern Tanzania are a key dispersal area for wildlife, and are of vital importance to Maasai pastoral livelihoods, which are rapidly diversifying. Diversification is coupled with fragmentation of the rangelands as agriculture expands and multipl...
The livestock sector in sub-Saharan Africa faces negative impacts of climate change (Suryabhagavan2017). In Tanzania, livestock husbandry faces higher risks from these impacts associated with altered productivity in rangelands. Reduced productivity may adversely affect pastoral livelihoods and the economy o...
“Unlike their landscape neighbors the Maasai pastoralists, the Hadzabe live in woodlands, not on the plains,” says Chira Schouten, Project Lead for the Northern Tanzania Rangelands Initiative (NTRI). “Pastoralists on the plains and plateaus will search for water and grass during the dry season...
Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia Beau J. Austin & Stephen T. Garnett Corresponding author Correspondence toKerstin K. Zander. Electronic supplementary material Below is the link to the electronic supplementary material. ...
proper attention to the environmental aspects of unchecked deforestation and degradation of rangelands and watersheds can represent a sustainable strategy for managing flood risk management [23]. Studying the impact of floods on the social and economic situation in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district, India...