Drought and famine in Sub-Saharan Africa is among the leading contributory causes of vulnerability in pastoral communities. This paper discusses approaches that allow understanding of pastoral indigenous adaptive strategies to drought and famine. It is argued that understanding pastoral livelihood strategies requires a holistic approach. The paper focused on three key approaches namely: sustain...

Drought and conflict in the Horn of Africa are causing population displacement, increasing risks of child mortality and malnutrition. Humanitarian agencies are trying to mitigate the impact, with limited resources. Data from previous years may help guide decisions. Trends in different populations affected by displacement (1997-2009) were analyzed to investigate: (1) how elevated malnutrition an...

With increasingly fragmented rangelands, restricted mobility and climatic stress, diversification has accelerated among East African pastoralists. Diversification is also promoted as a climate change adaptation strategy to reduce exposure. Through study of Maasai communal land in southern Kenya, we analyze how pastoralists navigate changing access key productive resources that are linked proces...

 Degradation of grassland and the environment restricting access to grazing resources increased pastoral vulnerability to drought and loss of livestock assets which pose threat to pastoral based livelihoods. In respond to these threats many pastoral communities diversify their livelihood to agro-pastoralism. This shift led to increased sedentarization of the pastoralists with many growing crops...

This study documents the causes and processes behind uptake of crop cultivation by a Maasai community southern Kenya which, until recently, was still devoted to full-time mobile livestock keeping. Based on methods comparative agriculture detailed quantification household income from cash crops, classification farm units (n = 38) into nine production systems reveals that agro-pastoralism Mbirika...

Conflicts between crop farmers and pastoralists have become a common feature of economic livelihood in West Africa. The study assessed the demographic implications farmers-pastoralists conflict Benue North-West, Nigeria. adopted cross-sectional survey design sample 120 respondents was purposively selected from three LGAs mostly affected by pastoralists’ attacks. Data were collected using struct...

Land use is intensifying in southern Kajiado District, Kenya. In the 1960s and 1970s, land used communally by Maasai was divided into group ranches with title held collectively by ranch members. Some ranches have since been divided into parcels owned by individual members. Other sources of land use intensification include human population growth and immigration, more intensive livestock managem...

The management of rangelands, including climate change adaptation strategies, is primarily responsible for stimulating livestock productivity, which consequently improves food security. This paper investigates the impact adaptations on security among pastoralists in semi-arid parts Kenya, who have not received due attention to date. Using an endogenous switching regression model, current study ...