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Conservation in northern Kenya: conflicts over community land in the pastoral margins
November 13, 2019 / FAC blog
With growing economic, environmental, and conservation pressures, it is imperative that the question of community land ownership in the pastoral areas of northern Kenya be addressed; otherwise, chaos and conflict will likely ensue.  Land ownership is a core concern of
Livestock production: the limits of extensive systems in Zimbabwe
October 30, 2019 / FAC blog
As the previous blog described, the communal area sites we have been studying in Masvingo rarely produced sufficient crops to cover even subsistence needs, and then if so only very occasionally, as with the Mwenezi experience in 2016-17. So what about livestock