TY - BOOK ID - 19456518 TI - Staying Maasai? : Livelihoods, Conservation and Development in East African Rangelands AU - Homewood, Katherine. AU - Kristjanson, Patti. AU - Trench, P. PY - 2009 SN - 0387874917 1441927662 9786612006197 1282006193 0387874925 PB - New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Maasai (African people) KW - Nature conservation KW - Savanna ecology KW - Sustainable development KW - Development, Sustainable KW - Ecologically sustainable development KW - Economic development, Sustainable KW - Economic sustainability KW - ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) KW - Smart growth KW - Sustainable economic development KW - Savannas KW - Conservation of nature KW - Nature KW - Nature protection KW - Protection of nature KW - Lumbwa (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) KW - Maa (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) KW - Masai KW - Masai (African people) KW - Massai (African people) KW - Economic conditions. KW - Environmental aspects KW - Ecology KW - Conservation KW - Environment. KW - Landscape ecology. KW - Nature conservation. KW - Anthropology. KW - Demography. KW - Nature Conservation. KW - Landscape Ecology. KW - Economic development KW - Conservation of natural resources KW - Applied ecology KW - Conservation biology KW - Endangered ecosystems KW - Natural areas KW - Ethnology KW - Historical demography KW - Social sciences KW - Population KW - Vital statistics KW - Human beings KW - Primitive societies UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:19456518 AB - 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 comparative analyses give valuable lessons of broader applicability. It is a valuable resource for anyone, researchers, development workers and policy makers, who is concerned with improving environmental as well as economic security on the wildlife-rich Maasai pastoral lands in Kenya and Tanzania. ER -