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