Staying Maasai? : Livelihoods, Conservation and Development in East African Rangelands

Over the last decade or so, community conservation has emerged as a way out of poverty and environmental problems for these rural populations, focusing on the sustainable use of wildlife to generate income that could underpin equally sustainable development.

Family Portraits - Mara.- Changing Land Use, Livelihoods and Wildlife Conservation in Maasailand.- Methods in the Analysis of Maasai Livelihoods.- Maasai Mara - Land Privatization and Wildlife Decline: Can Conservation Pay Its Way?.- Assessing Returns to Land and Changing Livelihood Strategies in Kitengela.- Family Portraits - Amboseli.- Pathways of Continuity and Change: Maasai Livelihoods in Amboseli, Kajiado District, Kenya.- Family Portraits - Longido.- Still "People of Cattle"? Livelihoods, Diversification and Community Conservation in Longido District.- Family Portraits - Tarangire.- Cattle and Crops, Tourism and Tanzanite: Poverty, Land-Use Change and Conservation in Simanjiro District, Tanzania.- Community-Based Conservation and Maasai Livelihoods in Tanzania.- Policy and Practice in Kenya Rangelands: Impacts on Livelihoods and Wildlife.- Staying Maasai? Pastoral Livelihoods, Diversification and the Role of Wildlife in Development.