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  title info:
    title: Staying Maasai?
    sub title: Livelihoods, Conservation and Development in East African Rangelands
  name:
    name part: Homewood, Katherine.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Kristjanson, Patti.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Trench, Pippa Chenevix.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 418 p. online resource.
  abstract: People, livestock and wildlife have lived together on the savannas of East Africa for millennia. Their coexistence has declined as conservation policies increasingly exclude people and livestock from national wildlife parks, and fast-growing human populations and development push wildlife and pastoralists onto ever more marginal lands. The result has been less wildlife, and more pastoral people struggling to diversify their livelihoods as access to pasture and water becomes harder to find. This book examines those livelihood and land use strategies in detail. In an integrated research effort that involved researchers, local communities and policy analysts, surveys were carried out across a wide range of Maasai communities providing contrasting land tenure and national policies and varying degrees of intensification of agriculture, tourism and other activities. The aim was to create a better understanding of current livelihood patterns and the decisions facing Maasai at the start of the 21st Century in the context of ongoing environmental, political, and societal change. With a research design that linked quantitative and qualitative methods and research teams across multiple pastoral sites for the first time, a comparison of livelihood strategies and returns to livestock, crops, wildlife tourism, and other activities across Kenyan and Tanzanian Maasailand was possible. While livestock remains the critical anchor for most Maasai households, many are obtaining income from a variety of alternative sources. Unfortunately, income from wildlife/tourism, an option seen as most desirable by many because of its potential to provide economically and environmentally ‘win-win’ situations, still benefits relatively few Maasai. Similarly, although governments favor agricultural intensification, significant crop income or enhanced food security from subsistence cropping elude most. This book provides a rich source of new data from across Maasailand and its unparallelled multi-site…
  table of contents: Family Portraits – Mara -- Changing Land Use, Livelihoods and Wildlife Conservation in Maasailand -- Methods in the Analysis of Maasai Livelihoods -- Maasai Mara – Land Privatization and Wildlife Decline: Can Conservation Pay Its Way? -- Assessing Returns to Land and Changing Livelihood Strategies in Kitengela -- Family Portraits – Amboseli -- Pathways of Continuity and Change: Maasai Livelihoods in Amboseli, Kajiado District, Kenya -- Family Portraits – Longido -- Still “People of Cattle”? Livelihoods, Diversification and Community Conservation in Longido District -- Family Portraits – Tarangire -- Cattle and Crops, Tourism and Tanzanite: Poverty, Land-Use Change and Conservation in Simanjiro District, Tanzania -- Community-Based Conservation and Maasai Livelihoods in Tanzania -- Policy and Practice in Kenya Rangelands: Impacts on Livelihoods and Wildlife -- Staying Maasai? Pastoral Livelihoods, Diversification and the Role of Wildlife in Development.
  note: edited by Katherine Homewood, Patti Kristjanson, Pippa Chenevix Trench.
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Landscape ecology
  subject:
    topic: Nature conservation
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Demography
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Nature Conservation
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Landscape Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Demography
  classification: QH75-77
  classification: 333.72
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation, 5
  identifier: 9780387874920
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-87492-0
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204170838.0
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