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The EACLIPSE Project

Local Institutions, Local Knowledge, and Geographies of Pastoralist Adaptation to Climate Change in Southern Kenya Tom Smucker Geography & African Studies Ohio University 2009 AAG Annual Meeting Las Vegas, NV. The EACLIPSE Project.

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The EACLIPSE Project

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  1. Local Institutions, Local Knowledge, and Geographies of Pastoralist Adaptation to Climate Change in Southern KenyaTom SmuckerGeography & African StudiesOhio University2009 AAG Annual MeetingLas Vegas, NV

  2. The EACLIPSE Project GopalAlagarswamy, Jeff Andresen, David Campbell, Robert Glew, Sarah Hession, Dong Yun Kim, Joseph Maitima, Salome Misana, Nathan Moore, Simon Mugatha, Claude Mong’ong’o, Simon Mwansasu, Joseph Ogutu, Jennifer Olson , JiaguoQi, Mohammed Said, Thomas Smucker, Philip Thornton, Edna Wangui, Ben Wisner and Pius Yanda. NSF Biocomplexity in the Environment Award 0308420

  3. Local Institutions and CC Adaptation in East African Drylands • Coping strategies and diversification among East African pastoralists • Limitations of the literature on ‘coping with drought’ • Integrating concerns about local knowledge and shifting institutional articulations • Institutions and adaptive capacity in Loitokitok District • Imbirikani GR on the brink of subdivision • New institutions: CBOs anticipate subdivision

  4. From Drought Coping to Climate Change Adaptation • Temporal dynamics of coping, diversification, and adaptation • Focus on household-level economic and technical management responses • Limited attention to ‘local knowledge’

  5. Study Sites in Loitokitok District, Kenya

  6. A non-agricultural landscape? • What kind of pastoralists are the Ilkisonko Maasai? Irrigated agriculture, Kimana Rainfed agriculture (abandoned), Kimana

  7. Mbirikani GR: Mediating Internal and External Pressures • Nexus of pressures from internal pro & anti-subdivision groups, wildlife conservation community, would be investors • Wildlife conservation interests and emergence of local wildlife community groups • Maintaining livestock and wildlife mobility in a post-subdivision landscape

  8. New Players: CBOs Anticipate Subdivision • Economic, cultural, and political origins / strategies • Interface with / resources from growing Ministry presence at district level (Gender and Children, Social Development, Agriculture) • New forms of bonding & networking social capital: the next round of Maasai negotiations with ‘external’ interests

  9. Reorganizing the Post-GR Institutional Landscape

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