Pastoralism is an important form of livelihood in Kenya, particularly in northern Kenya. While
pastoralists have always faced risks such as political marginalization, harsh climate …

In this article, we provide a review of research on the existing and abandoned wells in
Marsabit County, Northern Kenya, and associated Indigenous Knowledge concerning water …

Violent communal conflicts between identity-based groups are a severe threat to human
security and development. While most communal conflicts take place in civil war-affected …

In north-western Kenya, significant oil reserves have been discovered and the first oil trucks
have left Turkana County in June 2018. On the east side of Lake Turkana, the largest wind …

Pastoralists depend on access to communal rangelands but ongoing privatisation of land
threatens their access. Further, globally, proponents of pastoralism call for state-sanctioned …

The category of 'inter-communal violence'has been increasingly mobilised to interpret
subnational violence in contemporary Africa. The paper contends this is an unwelcome …

Many large-scale land acquisition studies focus on the role of powerful transnational
corporations, foreign and domestic governments. Instead, we shift the focus to the role of …

Research is increasingly approaching migration as an adaptation to climate risk. Yet our
understanding of the migration-adaptation nexus remains limited, as most studies …

This chapter examines, first, the various linkages between migration and the environment in
Africa and in the rest of the world. Secondly, it opens a breach on the climate variability and …

This chapter analyzes patterns of communal conflict–ie, violent conflicts between non-state
groups which are organized based on communal identities–in Kenya. The politicized nature …