Impacts of long-term land-use changes on herd size and mobility among pastoral households in Amboseli ecosystem, Kenya

Kimiti, Kennedy Sakimba; Western, David; Mbau, J. S.; Wasonga, Oliver Vivian

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“…It has also been argued that the rise of cultivation within pastoral systems can contribute to reduced mobility and progression towards more sedentary systems in which livestock and crop agriculture are more closely integrated [ 60 ]. While our data do not allow us to evaluate changes in herd size, the impacts of restricted grazing and sedenterisation of pastoral communities have been associated with declines in herd sizes in pastoral communities in other settings [ 61 , 62 ].…”

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Classification and characterisation of livestock production systems in northern Tanzania

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Livestock keepers in sub-Saharan Africa face a range of pressures, including climate change, land loss, restrictive policies, and population increase. Widespread adaptation in response can lead to the emergence of new, non-traditional typologies of livestock production. We sought to characterise livestock production systems in two administrative regions in northern Tanzania, an area undergoing rapid social, economic, and environmental change. Questionnaire and spatial data were collected from 404 livestock-keeping households in 21 villages in Arusha and Manyara Regions in 2016. Multiple factor analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis were used to classify households into livestock production systems based on household-level characteristics. Adversity-based indicators of vulnerability, including reports of hunger, illness, and livestock, land and crop losses were compared between production systems. Three distinct clusters emerged through this process. The ethnic, environmental and livestock management characteristics of households in each cluster broadly mapped onto traditional definitions of ‘pastoral’, ‘agro-pastoral’ and ‘smallholder’ livestock production in the study area, suggesting that this quantitative classification system is complementary to more qualitative classification methods. Our approach allowed us to demonstrate a diversity in typologies of livestock production at small spatial scales, with almost half of study villages comprising more than one production system. We also found indicators of change within livestock production systems, most notably the adoption of crop agriculture in the majority of pastoral households. System-level heterogeneities in vulnerability were evident, with agro-pastoral households most likely to report hunger and pastoral households most likely to report illness in people and livestock, and livestock losses. We demonstrate that livestock production systems can provide context for assessing household vulnerability in northern Tanzania. Policy initiatives to improve household and community well-being should recognise the continuing diversity of traditional livestock production systems in northern Tanzania, including the diversity that can exist at small spatial scales.

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“…It has also been argued that the rise of cultivation within pastoral systems may lead to reduced mobility and progression towards more sedentary systems in which livestock and crop agriculture are more closely integrated[53]. The impacts of restricted grazing and sedenterisation of pastoral communities have also been associated with declines in herd sizes in pastoral communities in other settings[54,55].…”

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Classification and characterisation of livestock production systems in northern Tanzania

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25Livestock keepers in sub-Saharan Africa face a growing range of pressures, including climate 26 change, land loss, restrictive policies, and population increase. Widespread adaptation in 27 response to such pressures can lead to the emergence of new, non-traditional typologies of 28 livestock production. 29We sought to characterise livestock production systems in northern Tanzania, a region 30 undergoing rapid social, economic, and environmental change. Questionnaire and spatial data 31 were collected from 404 livestock-keeping households in 21 villages in Arusha and Manyara 32 Regions in 2016. Multiple factor analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis were used to classify 33 households into livestock production systems based on household-level characteristics. 34Indicators of vulnerability, including household-level reports of hunger, illness, livestock loss, 35 land loss and crop losses were compared between production systems.

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“…Spurred by the area's proximity to Nairobi and the presence of speculators looking to profit from the city's expansion, others sold their plots to investors (Rutten 1992). Land subdivision and sedentarisation has also resulted in a decline in the size of household herds, something that is more pronounced among more sedentarised pastoralists (Kimiti et al 2018). Immigration of livestock into these areas can also put pressure on grazing resources and increase herd losses, even in the absence of drought conditions (Nkedianye et al 2011).…”

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Newly evolving pastoral and post-pastoral rangelands of Eastern Africa

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Over the past two decades, the rangelands of Eastern Africa have experienced sweeping changes associated with growing human populations, shifting land use, expanding livestock marketing and trade, and greater investment by domestic and global capital. These trends have coincided with several large shocks that were turning points for how rangeland inhabitants make a living. As livelihoods in the region’s rangelands transform in seemingly paradoxical directions, away from customary pastoralist production systems, greater insight is required of how these transformations might affect poverty and vulnerability. This article reviews the state of what is known regarding directions of livelihood change in the rangelands of Eastern Africa, drawing on case studies of structural change in five settings in the region. It considers the implications of long-term change, as well as the emergence of very different livelihood mixes in pastoral rangelands, for efforts to reduce poverty and vulnerability in these places.

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Impacts of long-term land-use changes on herd size and mobility among pastoral households in Amboseli ecosystem, Kenya

Cited by 24 publications

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Classification and characterisation of livestock production systems in northern Tanzania

Classification and characterisation of livestock production systems in northern Tanzania

Classification and characterisation of livestock production systems in northern Tanzania

Newly evolving pastoral and post-pastoral rangelands of Eastern Africa

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