“In the year 2000 we had called the government officials and had requested them to kill all of us…. we have lost our land, our water; we have nowhere to go.”
An elderly Karrayu pastoralist, sitting beside Lake Basaka and talking with the PASTRES team, is in a state of despair. He makes sure that the team is listening to him and noting down his worries and the concerns of his community about pastoralism in his part of Ethiopia. It’s a region where pastoralists face entangled problems linked to development initiatives, conservation, and state/society conflicts.
This article is from PASTRES, a research programme that aims to learn from pastoralists about responding to uncertainty and resilience, with lessons for global challenges. PASTRES is co-hosted by IDS.
