K Homewood
Biographic Data
| ID | 2203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Homewood |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Homewood |
| SIGNATURE | HOMEWOOD K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7391-985X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 484 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Hundreds of millions of people in the tropics need both wild harvests and other forms of economic development for their well-being
of millions of people in the tropics harvest ''wild'' common-pool resources d Wild harvests are correlated with high relative well-being in remote and poor areas d Access to infrastructure, cities, assets, and skills also increase well-being overall d The well-being of many people relies on both wild resources and economic development
Evaluating the determinants of participation in conservancy land leases and its impacts on household wealth in the Maasai Mara, Kenya
The role of agroforestry in restoring Brazil's Atlantic Forest
Restoring the degraded Atlantic Forest is one of the biggest conservation challenges in Brazil. In a biome with high human presence, understanding the potential for restoration approaches, such as agroforestry, to provide benefits to smallholder farmers and biodiversity is essential in developing equitable restoration strategies. Smallholder or family farmers are essential to national food security, producing most fruit and vegetables consumed in…
Women, wellbeing and Wildlife Management Areas in Tanzania
Community-based wildlife management claims pro-poor, gender-sensitive outcomes. However, intersectional political ecology predicts adverse impacts on marginalised people. Our large-scale quantitative approach draws out common patterns and differentiated ways women are affected by Tanzania's Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs). This first large-scale, rigorous evaluation studies WMA impacts on livelihoods and wellbeing of 937 married women in 42 vill…
Sustainability of wild plant use in the Andean Community of South America
Overexploitation is the second biggest driver of global plant extinction. Meanwhile, useful plant species are vital to livelihoods across the world, with global conservation efforts increasingly applying the concept of ‘conservation-through-use.’ However, successfully balancing conservation and biodiversity use remains challenging. We reviewed literature on the sustainability of wild-collected plant use across the countries of Colombia, Ecuador, …
Impact of Tanzania’s Wildlife Management Areas on household wealth
Tarik Dahou
Pastoralism
Pastoralism comprises livestock production systems based on mobile herds grazing or browsing natural vegetation across extensive rangelands. These encompass tropical and subtropical arid and semiarid lands, temperate steppe, Alpine, and high‐latitude systems. In these environments, plant growth is commonly variable, unpredictable, and patchy in time and space. Cultivation is risky, but pastoralism based on mobile herds can sustain livelihoods on …
“They Call It Shangri-La”
A central anthropological contribution to exploring and developing concepts of sustainability resides in the local voices anthropology makes heard, especially those commonly not registered or simply disregarded by national and global decision-makers. I develop this with respect to the particular comparative case study of community conservation in East African rangelands. Among other social and ecological outcomes of these interventions, I explore…
Sustainability and Land tenure
In seeking to achieve poverty alleviation and environmental conservation, public policy has often centred on guaranteeing land titles to local peoples. However, such approaches have brought unintended outcomes, replacing small-scale economies and natural areas by intensive exploitation of resources with no clear improvement in local people’s wellbeing. To understand this, we go beyond a general political ecology framing to consider relations betw…
Guiding principles for evaluating the impacts of conservation interventions on human well-being
Measures of socio-economic impacts of conservation interventions have largely been restricted to externally defined indicators focused on income, which do not reflect people's priorities. Using a holistic, locally grounded conceptualization of human well-being instead provides a way to understand the multi-faceted impacts of conservation on aspects of people's lives that they value. Conservationists are engaging with well-being for both pragmatic…
Assessing the Relationship Between Human Well-being and Ecosystem Services
Focusing on the most impoverished populations, we critically review and synthesise key themes from dominant frameworks for assessing the relationship between well-being and ecosystem services in developing countries. This requires a differentiated approach to conceptualising well-being that appropriately reflects the perspectives of the poorest-those most directly dependent on ecosystem services, and their vulnerability to external and policy-dri…
Wildlife Depletion in a West African Farm-Forest Mosaic and the Implications for Hunting Across the Landscape
Being Maasai, Becoming Indigenous
Dorothy Hodgson's new book sets out an ethnography of political and civil society organizations among Maasai in northern Tanzania. She documents the emergence of Maasai NGOs from the 1980s onwards, triggered by spiralling land loss and impoverishment in Tanzanian rangelands. She charts the proliferation of these organizations, their varied natures, and the challenges they have faced. Those challenges have been both internal (organizational struct…
Temporal Heterogeneity in the Study of African Land Use
Politics in Land and Water Management
Reviewed by: Politics in Land and Water Management: Study in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Katherine M. Homewood Lerise, Fred Simon . 2005. Politics in Land and Water Management: Study in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers. 199 pp. In arid and semiarid areas of Tanzania, key resources of water and fertile land are patchy, limiting, and continually contested—between different farming and pastoralist groups in the nineteenth ce…
As Pastoralists Settle
The value of bushmeat and other wild foods to rural households living in extreme poverty in Democratic Republic of Congo
Policy, environment and development in African rangelands
In-Migrants and Exclusion in East African Rangelands
East African rangelands have a long history of population mobility linked to competition over key resources, negotiated access, and outright conflict. Both in the literature and in local discourse, in-migration is presented as leading to increased competition, driving poverty and social exclusion on the one hand, and conflict and violence on the other. Current analyses in developing countries identify economic differences, ethnic fault lines, eco…
Entrepreneurs, Elites, and Exclusion in Maasailand
The causes of land-use and land-cover change
Degradation Debates and Data Deficiencies
The Mkomazi Game Reserve is contested by people who wish to use its resources and by conservationists who have argued that the reserve should be set aside for wildlife. Underpinning the conservationist case is the argument that people are harmful to the reserve's environment. Former residents of the reserve, notably pastoralists, argue that human use of the reserve did not cause its degradation. The debate is characterised by a lack of data extra…
Pastoralism in Africa
Rural Resources and Local Livelihoods in Africa
Sub-saharan rangelands and forests have been a playground for western interventions, and something of a bottomless pit for donor funding on both environment and development. Many, if not most, of these initiatives have had poor outcomes. That suggests there is something seriously wrong with western understanding of African environments, of the part they play in people's vulnerability, of the ways that people deal with them and of the impacts thos…
The causes of land-use and land-cover change
Hominid Dietary Selection Before Fire [and Comments and Reply]
Control of fire was apparently acquired rather late in the course of hominid evolution. It is therefore necessary, in the study of dietary selection by early hominids, to consider the range of plants that would have proven inedible without cooking. Some plants contain toxins or digestibility-reducing compounds, and some plant constituents are indigestible. Cooking mitigates the impact of toxins and renders complex carbohydrates more digestible. P…
In-Migrants and Exclusion in East African Rangelands
East African rangelands have a long history of population mobility linked to competition over key resources, negotiated access, and outright conflict. Both in the literature and in local discourse, in-migration is presented as leading to increased competition, driving poverty and social exclusion on the one hand, and conflict and violence on the other. Current analyses in developing countries identify economic differences, ethnic fault lines, eco…
Degradation Debates and Data Deficiencies
The Mkomazi Game Reserve is contested by people who wish to use its resources and by conservationists who have argued that the reserve should be set aside for wildlife. Underpinning the conservationist case is the argument that people are harmful to the reserve's environment. Former residents of the reserve, notably pastoralists, argue that human use of the reserve did not cause its degradation. The debate is characterised by a lack of data extra…
Entrepreneurs, Elites, and Exclusion in Maasailand
Development, demarcation and ecological outcomes in Maasailand
The article begins by setting out the position of the Maasai, their territory and social organisation at the advent of the colonial period. It documents the progressive erosion of territory and the imposition of new boundaries on the Maasai from the 1880s to the present. It then uses the author's studies of the current Maasai land use and production system in Tanzanian Maasailand, together with comparative material from Kenyan Maasailand, to show…
Temporal Heterogeneity in the Study of African Land Use
Policy, environment and development in African rangelands
Sustainability and Land tenure
In seeking to achieve poverty alleviation and environmental conservation, public policy has often centred on guaranteeing land titles to local peoples. However, such approaches have brought unintended outcomes, replacing small-scale economies and natural areas by intensive exploitation of resources with no clear improvement in local people’s wellbeing. To understand this, we go beyond a general political ecology framing to consider relations betw…
Women, wellbeing and Wildlife Management Areas in Tanzania
Community-based wildlife management claims pro-poor, gender-sensitive outcomes. However, intersectional political ecology predicts adverse impacts on marginalised people. Our large-scale quantitative approach draws out common patterns and differentiated ways women are affected by Tanzania's Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs). This first large-scale, rigorous evaluation studies WMA impacts on livelihoods and wellbeing of 937 married women in 42 vill…
Human Ecology
This new edition of a widely adopted primary and supplementary text explores human adaptations to environments over time. It is biologically and culturally sophisticated, drawing on an impressive array of archaeological and paleontological research. Campbell proceeds from earlier, simpler biomes to later, more complex ones, examining selected aspects of the prehistory and history of the human species. Human Ecology offers a succinct introduction …
A previously undescribed mangabey from Southern Tanzania
Sustainability of wild plant use in the Andean Community of South America
Overexploitation is the second biggest driver of global plant extinction. Meanwhile, useful plant species are vital to livelihoods across the world, with global conservation efforts increasingly applying the concept of ‘conservation-through-use.’ However, successfully balancing conservation and biodiversity use remains challenging. We reviewed literature on the sustainability of wild-collected plant use across the countries of Colombia, Ecuador, …
Impact of Tanzania’s Wildlife Management Areas on household wealth
Wildlife Depletion in a West African Farm-Forest Mosaic and the Implications for Hunting Across the Landscape
As Pastoralists Settle
Maasailand Ecology
With Bitter Herbs They Shall Eat It
A previously undescribed mangabey from Southern Tanzania
Pastoralism and conservation
Hominid Dietary Selection Before Fire [and Comments and Reply]
Control of fire was apparently acquired rather late in the course of hominid evolution. It is therefore necessary, in the study of dietary selection by early hominids, to consider the range of plants that would have proven inedible without cooking. Some plants contain toxins or digestibility-reducing compounds, and some plant constituents are indigestible. Cooking mitigates the impact of toxins and renders complex carbohydrates more digestible. P…
Human Ecology
This new edition of a widely adopted primary and supplementary text explores human adaptations to environments over time. It is biologically and culturally sophisticated, drawing on an impressive array of archaeological and paleontological research. Campbell proceeds from earlier, simpler biomes to later, more complex ones, examining selected aspects of the prehistory and history of the human species. Human Ecology offers a succinct introduction …
Pastoralism, conservation and the overgrazing controversy
One striking aspect of the scramble for resources in East Africa has been the interaction of pastoralism and conservation (Homewood & Rodgers, 1984b). The general outcome has been that large areas of pastoral rangelands have been expropriated for exclusive wildlife conservation use (Hjort, 1982; Little, 1984). This has commonly been justified on the argument that pastoralists overstock, overgraze and damage their range while wildlife are seen as …
Maasailand Ecology
Ngorongoro Conservation Area in the heart of Maasailand is one of the world's most important conservation heritage areas. This book centres on a field study of the Ngorongoro Maasai and their herds, around which present knowledge of African rangeland, wildlife, livestock and pastoralist ecology is brought together and analysed. Management problems in Ngorongoro encapsulate many of the major debates in the ecology and conservation of African savan…
Development and the ecology of Maasai pastoralist food and nutrition
Development programmes for pastoralist communities in sub-Saharan Africa have concentrated on livestock development as a means to improve economic, nutritional and other standards of living. This paper looks at the outcomes of two decades of development inputs (1960–1980) among Maasai communities in socialist Tanzania and capitalist Kenya. Despite major differences in national economies, infrastructures and inputs, there are few significant diffe…
Adaptive Strategies in African Arid Lands
Journal Article Adaptive Strategies in African Arid Lands Get access Adaptive Strategies in African Arid Lands, edited by Mette Bovin and Leif Manger. Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, Uppsala, 1990. 181 pp. SEK 140 paperback. ISBN 91 7106 311 0. From Water to World-Making, edited by Gisli Palsson. Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, Upsala, 1990. 207 pp. SEK 140 paperback ISBN 91 7106 3137. KATHERINE HOMEWOOD KATHERINE HOMEWOOD U…
With Bitter Herbs They Shall Eat It
General/Theoretical Anthropology
Maasailand Ecology
Pastoralism in Africa
Development, demarcation and ecological outcomes in Maasailand
The article begins by setting out the position of the Maasai, their territory and social organisation at the advent of the colonial period. It documents the progressive erosion of territory and the imposition of new boundaries on the Maasai from the 1880s to the present. It then uses the author's studies of the current Maasai land use and production system in Tanzanian Maasailand, together with comparative material from Kenyan Maasailand, to show…
The causes of land-use and land-cover change
Degradation Debates and Data Deficiencies
The Mkomazi Game Reserve is contested by people who wish to use its resources and by conservationists who have argued that the reserve should be set aside for wildlife. Underpinning the conservationist case is the argument that people are harmful to the reserve's environment. Former residents of the reserve, notably pastoralists, argue that human use of the reserve did not cause its degradation. The debate is characterised by a lack of data extra…
Entrepreneurs, Elites, and Exclusion in Maasailand
The value of bushmeat and other wild foods to rural households living in extreme poverty in Democratic Republic of Congo
Policy, environment and development in African rangelands
In-Migrants and Exclusion in East African Rangelands
East African rangelands have a long history of population mobility linked to competition over key resources, negotiated access, and outright conflict. Both in the literature and in local discourse, in-migration is presented as leading to increased competition, driving poverty and social exclusion on the one hand, and conflict and violence on the other. Current analyses in developing countries identify economic differences, ethnic fault lines, eco…
Politics in Land and Water Management
Reviewed by: Politics in Land and Water Management: Study in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Katherine M. Homewood Lerise, Fred Simon . 2005. Politics in Land and Water Management: Study in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers. 199 pp. In arid and semiarid areas of Tanzania, key resources of water and fertile land are patchy, limiting, and continually contested—between different farming and pastoralist groups in the nineteenth ce…
As Pastoralists Settle
Temporal Heterogeneity in the Study of African Land Use
Being Maasai, Becoming Indigenous
Dorothy Hodgson's new book sets out an ethnography of political and civil society organizations among Maasai in northern Tanzania. She documents the emergence of Maasai NGOs from the 1980s onwards, triggered by spiralling land loss and impoverishment in Tanzanian rangelands. She charts the proliferation of these organizations, their varied natures, and the challenges they have faced. Those challenges have been both internal (organizational struct…
Wildlife Depletion in a West African Farm-Forest Mosaic and the Implications for Hunting Across the Landscape
Assessing the Relationship Between Human Well-being and Ecosystem Services
Focusing on the most impoverished populations, we critically review and synthesise key themes from dominant frameworks for assessing the relationship between well-being and ecosystem services in developing countries. This requires a differentiated approach to conceptualising well-being that appropriately reflects the perspectives of the poorest-those most directly dependent on ecosystem services, and their vulnerability to external and policy-dri…
Geography (32 works) · Ecology (25 works) · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (23 works) · Economics (19 works) · Biology (18 works) · Ecology (17 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (16 works) · Agriculture (15 works) · Environmental planning (14 works) · Political science (14 works)