In the drylands and mountains where pastoralists live, uncertainty is everywhere. In these settings, negotiating access to resources, navigating volatile markets, making use of varying social relations in times of stress, and responding to conflict and complex political dynamics is essential if livelihoods are to be generated. Pastoralism - the extensive, often mobile use of rangelands - is a vitally important livelihood practice globally. Rangelands cover more than half the world's land surface, supporting many millions of people and livestock, often in harsh and hostile environments. The book's chapters - with case studies from Africa, Asia, and Europe - explore how pastoral mobility is sustained, how resources are managed, how markets are combined, how social protections are provided, and how patterns of accumulation and investment are sustained in a more globalized, interconnected world. Focusing on the attributes of flexibility, adaptation, innovation, and learning for generating reliability, the book offers wider lessons for development in pastoral areas the world over that go beyond the rigid modes of planning, management, and control.
Bose, Shibaji: -
Shibaji Bose is a creative consultant and a visual-methods researcher. His work draws on long-term visual ethnography and participatory visual action research in remote and climatically fragile zones in South Asia.
Gogineni, Roopa: -
Roopa Gogineni is a director and photographer focused on historical memory and modes of resistance. She has an MSc in African Studies from the University of Oxford, where she researched the construction of media narratives around Somalia.
Maru, Natasha: -
Natasha Maru is a multidisciplinary social scientist and policy consultant working on pastoral development. She has recently finished a PhD with the PASTRES programme at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, where she studied the temporal experiences of mobility among the Rabari pastoralists of western India.
Mohamed, Tahira: -
Tahira Mohamed is an anthropologist from Marsabit County in northern Kenya. She recently completed her doctoral research under the PASTRES programme at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. Her study examines how 'moral economies' and social 'safety-net' institutions are evolving among the Waso Boran pastoralists of northern Kenya's Isiolo County.
Nori, Michele: -
Michele Nori is a tropical agronomist with a further specialization in rural sociology and specific expertise in the resource management and livelihood systems of agro-pastoral communities. Through 25 years of work experience, he has developed a 'horizontal career', by collaborating with various organizations including civil society, UN agencies, research institutes, agricultural enterprises, and donors' offices in different dryland regions.
Pappagallo, Linda: -
Linda Pappagallo has a background in research on the political economy of managing resources, which has focused on understanding the political economy of pastoral production, migration and collective management, particularly in the Mediterranean region. Her Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded PhD research linked to the PASTRES Partir pour Rester (to leave in order to stay) programme explores how human mobility and collective herding practices in southern Tunisia explain the persistence of livestock-keeping.
Scoones, Ian: - Ian Scoones is a professor at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. He is an agricultural ecologist by original training but today works on questions of policy around land, agriculture, and agrarian change, mostly in Africa. He is the principal investigator of the ERC-funded PASTRES programme (http: //pastres.org).
Simula, Giulia: -
Giulia Simula is an agrarian and food movement researcher and activist originally from Sardinia, Italy. She currently works with the secretariat of the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples' Mechanism for relations with the UN Committee of World Food Security. In her work, she facilitates the participation of small-scale food producers, pastoralists, peasants, the landless, and other sectors in policy processes.
Taye, Masresha: -
Masresha Taye is a development practitioner focusing on African dryland systems. He is interested in research, development, and policy work on drought and conflict-prone areas, disaster risk financing, anticipatory technologies/innovations for pastoral populations, and climate change and uncertainty.
Tsering, Palden: -
Palden Tsering (Chinese Pinyin: Huadancairang) possesses an MSc from the Durrell Institute of Conservation Ecology University of Kent, UK and a PhD from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, as part of the PASTRES programme. He has worked on the role of traditional Tibetan resource governance, conservation and development, and the politics of these dynamic interactions amongst institutions (government, monastery, pastoral community) amid changes and uncertainties in the pastoralist context.
