Nutritional Consequences of Wealth Differentials in East African Pastoralists: The Case of the Datoga of Northern Tanzania

Sellen, Daniel

doi:10.1023/b:huec.0000005513.78183.34

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“…The simplest measure is the number of individuals in the household, but this does not take into account the relative contributions of different members of the household with regard to consumption and production (Sellen 2003). Many different adult male equivalent measures have been used in studies of consumption and livelihoods, often without specifying the exact units of measurement (e.g.…”

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Incentives for Hunting: The Role of Bushmeat in the Household Economy in Rural Equatorial Guinea

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Bushmeat is an important component of the informal economy throughout West and Central Africa. In order to formulate effective policy to ensure the sustainability of bushmeat hunting for both development and conservation reasons, there is a need to understand its position within the wider rural economy. We conducted interviews with households and hunters over a 15-month period in a village in continental Equatorial Guinea which supplies substantial quantities of bushmeat to the urban market, to evaluate (1) whether hunting is predominately for income or consumption and through choice or necessity, and (2) the factors influencing household production of and consumption and expenditure on bushmeat. Hunting for trade to urban markets is a major component of household incomes, carried out by around 60% of poor-tomiddle income households, while richer households have other income-generating activities. The greater a hunter's bushmeat offtake, the higher the proportion sold. Bushmeat forms a minor component of household expenditure and is less widely consumed than alternative protein sources. It is a necessity good, with consumption and expenditure on bushmeat related less than proportionately to income. While they prefer the security of a regular wage, hunting is an important source of fall-back income for men in the absence of preferable alternative livelihood opportunities.

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Incentives for Hunting: The Role of Bushmeat in the Household Economy in Rural Equatorial Guinea

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“…There are two perennial rivers in the system, the Ewaso Nyiro and Ngare Ndare, which is unique in semiarid pastoral settings (Borgerhoff Mulder 1992;Butt 2010;Homewood 1995 andMcCabe et al 2010;Scoones 1995;Sellen 1999Sellen , 2000Sellen , 2003Thornton et al 2007;Yanda and William 2010). These rivers provide a reliable source of water for livestock, wildlife, and human populations on the western boundary of the Division without necessitating borehole development.…”

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Pastoralist societies in flux: A conceptual framework analysis of herding and land use among the Mukugodo Maasai of Kenya

Hauck

Rubenstein

2017

Pastoralism

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Pastoral livelihoods are evolving rapidly. The emergence of globalized markets and the integration of globalized production in developing countries have forced many pastoralists, along with the rest of the world's consumers, to shift their economic strategies of production to accommodate these evolving markets. The objective of this paper is to illustrate the relationship between globalization and apparent transformations in pastoralist behaviour in recent years. We specifically focus on the links among climate, land use, and herding in rural northern Kenya. To do this, we use a novel conceptual framework that incorporates both traditional interactions between pastoral ecology and resource generation and modern opportunities by linking pastoral families via their pastoral production and other economic activities to the cash economy, modern diets and nutritional status (health), and public and private assistance and programmes (such as food aid).

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“…The acquisition of resources by a household is limited by characteristics of the parents, such as parental education (Taguri et al, 2008) and the number and productivity of other producers (Sellen, 2003). The education of parents affects the amount and type of resources coming into the household.…”

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Child size and household characteristics in rural Timor‐Leste

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Judge

Sanders

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American J Hum Biol

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Nutritional Consequences of Wealth Differentials in East African Pastoralists: The Case of the Datoga of Northern Tanzania

Cited by 38 publications

References 64 publications

Incentives for Hunting: The Role of Bushmeat in the Household Economy in Rural Equatorial Guinea

Incentives for Hunting: The Role of Bushmeat in the Household Economy in Rural Equatorial Guinea

Pastoralist societies in flux: A conceptual framework analysis of herding and land use among the Mukugodo Maasai of Kenya

Child size and household characteristics in rural Timor‐Leste

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