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Pastoralism

News and comment on pastoralism, nomadic farming and agriculture

May 2024

  • Fulani families of semi-nomadic herders in a tent

    ‘I pray to you not to shoot us’: Mali’s Fulani herders languish in camps after violence – in pictures

    After old rivalries between Dogon farmers and Fulani herders erupted into violence, exacerbated by Islamist rebels, thousands of the semi-nomadic pastoralists have fled to camps in towns, leaving their cherished animals and way of life. Many must beg to survive at sites lacking food and clean water, with no end in sight to the conflict

January 2024

  • Portrait of a Maasai woman standing among corn crops

    ‘This is a real look into our lives’: the Maasai women photographing their people

    Two Maasai photographers chronicle the daily challenges facing pastoralist women as the climate crisis increases their burden of care, and food, fuel and water become scarcer

November 2023

  • A herder with his flock in Uvurkhangai, southern Mongolia.

    Dust, hail and bank loans: the Mongolian herders facing life without grass

    The climate crisis is bringing more storms, colder winters and drier summers which is threatening to extinguish a whole way of life on the Mongolian steppes

October 2023

  • A man helping a kid suckle on a female goat

    The age of extinction
    ‘I got to know the wolf’: how Spain’s shepherds are learning to live with their old enemy

    As wolf numbers surge, herders in the north of the country are relearning old ways to keep the apex predators at bay

August 2023

  • An African woman examines the eyes of a gaunt elderly woman wearing a traditional blanket

    ‘Death can find you’: three medics on work in Uganda’s most volatile region

    An eye doctor, a vet and a midwife talk about serving the people of Karamoja, where lives are marked by poverty and sudden violence

February 2023

  • Shepherd Amanda Guzman Mejias with three dogs and 400 sheep and goats

    Animals farmed
    ‘This is living to me’: the women swapping city life for shepherding in the Pyrenees – in pictures

    Photographer Paroma Basu followed three young Spanish women who have left urban careers and retrained through the Escola de Pastors i Pastores de Catalunya, one of a number of ́herding schools opening around Spain

July 2022

  • 5 ©ManalMassalha “It’s 2022 and we still live in caves. We want to be above the ground. Have windows and fresh air. Be comfortable. No matter the demolitions we are here to stay.” Mahmoud.

    The Guardian picture essay
    ‘It’s 2022 and we live in caves’: herders besieged by settlers on West Bank but still clinging to hope

  • Herder Aliou Ndong, left, during the move south, where he has found better grazing for his cattle.

    ‘We have travelled for a month to find grass’: climate crisis piles pressure on Senegal’s herders

October 2021

  • The Damau Grazing Reserve in Kaduna, northern Nigeria.

    Crisis Nigeria
    Trail’s end: the days of roaming free are numbered for Nigeria’s herders

    Government reserves are replacing a way of life that spanned generations but culminated in deadly conflict with farmers

March 2017

  • Tristan Voorspuy

    UK urges Kenya to 'restore law and order' after shooting of British rancher

    British high commissioner to Kenya speaks out following death of Tristan Voorspuy, whose ranch was invaded by herders

November 2016

  • Livestock market in Wajir

    Extreme weather
    Using satellites to support Kenya's drought-hit herders – in pictures

    In Kenya 1.3 million people are facing serious food insecurity and loss of livelihoods as a result of poor rainfall. As the next dry season approaches, one insurance scheme is using satellite data to support some of east Africa’s most vulnerable. Photographs by ILRI.

April 2016

  • Nyruach Lam, 30, at Gambella hospital in Gambella town, Ethiopia, on 17 April.

    'Unbridled violence' in Gambella leaves Ethiopia searching for answers

    Why did a group of South Sudanese people cross the border into western Ethiopia and start shooting mothers and abducting their children?

March 2016

  • A goat lies dead on a hillside in the Ulziit district of Bayankhongor in Mongolia

    Climate change in Mongolia destroying pastures on which nomadic herders rely

  • Workers move sacks of emergency food supplies in and out of Ethiopia’s largest “strategic grain reserve” depot in Adam

    As drought hits Ethiopia again, food aid risks breaking resilience

    Tate Munro and Lorenz Wild

January 2016

  • In areas of Sudan, cattle are a frequent source of disputes, including over routes they are allowed to take with pastoralists.

    Innovations in development
    Land disputes in Darfur eased by painted concrete posts

    In a region of Sudan where herders and farmers often clash over land, the simple technique of demarcating paths is helping communities heal

December 2015

  • Aasha, five, from Bodale, in the Maroodi Jeex region of Somaliland.

    Climate change in Somaliland: 'My children get very hungry' – in pictures

    More than 240,000 people in Somaliland do not have enough food because of acute droughts caused by poor rains. Save the Children warns that already alarming malnutrition rates are likely to increase

November 2015

  • Christine Lenyasunya and Beatrice Lesukuta, both chairperson and secretary of Lolkunono Women Group assessing maize produce at one of the members’ farm in Lolkunono village, Samburu Central.

    Women's rights and gender equality
    On Kenya's climate frontline, female farmers are building a secure future

    In drought-ridden Samburu county, support programmes are helping women to provide for their families and build communities’ resilience to climate change

September 2015

  • TO GO WITH STORY BY JENNY VAUGHAN This photo taken on May 22, 2012, shows a view of the controversial Gibe III dam under construction in Ethiopia s Omo valley. The Gibe III dam is set to be completed by 2013 and will be Africa s tallest at 243 metres high. The government says the Gibe III dam will boost development, give access to power for many Ethiopians -- about half of the population -- currently living without it, and generate revenue from the export of electricity to the region. But critics say Ethiopia must also consider the environmental and social impact it will have on some 500,000 people living downstream and at Lake Turkana in neighbouring Kenya, who rely on the river for their livelihood. AFP PHOTO / JENNY VAUGHANJENNY VAUGHAN/AFP/GettyImages

    EU diplomats reveal devastating impact of Ethiopia dam project on remote tribes

    Lives of semi-nomadic tribespeople being irreversibly changed by relocation into poorly planned settlements to make way for sugar plantation, says released report

July 2014

  • MDG : Drought in Turkana, Kenya : Children collect water in dry bed of the Turkwel river at Kalokol

    Drought in northern Kenya: 'Today you are rich, tomorrow you have nothing'

    Prolonged dry spells push pastoralists to the brink of starvation as food prices soar and cattle raids spiral out of control. Jessica Hatcher reports

June 2014

  • Mothers whose children are malnourished learn cooking techniques Thyolo District Hospital, Malawi

    Best bits
    9 reasons why gender matters when improving global nutrition

    Interventions to end hunger and malnutrition often focus on women. Our panel explore why. Sponsored by Gain

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