Ekwar System of Forest Conservation
Garret Hardin’s ‘tragedy of the commons’ thesis published in 1968, became a ‘’masterpiece” upon which environmental and development policies were formulated in the 1970s and 1980s. Pastoralist groups were on the receiving end of some of the policies, including discarding indigenous environmental methods. The Ekwar System in Turkana is seen as optimal for taking care of the trees in Turkana. The Elephant in conversation with Joseph Kalapata, a manager at the Forum for Protection of Pastoralist Development.
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