Trade-offs for climate-resilient pastoral livelihoods in wildlife conservancies in the Mara ecosystem, Kenya

Abstract Pastoralists in the wildlife-rich East African rangelands use diversification into conservation and tourism as a strategy to supplement livestock-based livelihoods and to spread risk. Tourism incomes are an important alternative source during drought, when livestock incomes decline. However...

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Main Authors: Claire Bedelian, Joseph O. Ogutu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-05-01
Series:Pastoralism
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13570-017-0085-1