Scholars, politicians, practitioners, and civil society increasingly call for sustainability
transformations to cope with urgent social and environmental challenges. In sustainability …

Human security will be progressively threatened as the climate changes (robust evidence,
high agreement). Human insecurity almost never has single causes, but instead emerges …

Over the past two decades, the rangelands of Eastern Africa have experienced sweeping
changes associated with growing human populations, shifting land use, expanding livestock …

Resilience is increasingly discussed as a key concept across many fields of international
policymaking from sustainable development and climate change, insecurity, conflict and …

Using an agent-based model to study risk-pooling in herder dyads using rules derived from
Maasai osotua (“umbilical cord”) relationships, Aktipis et al.(2011) found that osotua …

The use of enclosures has globally gained popularity as an effective strategy to enhance soil
carbon sequestration, but empirical evidence is lacking particularly in arid and semi-arid …

A study to determine carbon sequestration potentials and soil attributes was conducted in
Borana rangelands of southern Ethiopia under communally grazed areas, grazing …

There is a growing interest to take into account dry forests in planning sustainable
development in arid and semi-arid sub-Saharan Africa. A mixed quantitative and qualitative …

In the drylands of northern Kenya, as elsewhere in Africa, traditional pastoralist social-
ecological systems are undergoing profound transformations. Diminishing resource …

Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) is an understanding of natural systems acquired
through long-term human interactions with particular landscapes. Traditional knowledge …