Making Green Energy Safe for Pastoralists
Global Voices
By Hussein Tadicha Wario, Executive Director of the Center for R&D in Drylands in Marsabit, Kenya: Between the war in Ukraine and the race for net-zero emissions, the incentive to expand green-energy production is stronger.
Kenyan institutions, from school to government, take a different view. Schools teach that pastoralists live on barren and unproductive wasteland, and that our approach to livestock-rearing is archaic and environmentally destructive. Official policies aim to force pastoral communities to abandon their mobile livestock production system, in favor of more “advanced” or “modern” agricultural systems, such as cropping, which, according to conventional wisdom, is more productive and sustainable.
Making Green Energy Safe for Pastoralists
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