Gufu Oba
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 171489 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gufu Oba |
| NOMBRES | Gufu |
| APELLIDO | Oba |
| FIRMA | OBA G |
| AFILIACIONES | Norwegian University of Life Sciences |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 85 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
African Environmental Crisis
This book explores how and why the idea of the African environmental crisis developed and persisted through colonial and post-colonial periods, and why it has been so influential in development discourse. From the beginnings of imperial administration, the idea of the desiccation of African environments grew in popularity, but this crisis discourse was dominated by the imposition of imperial scientific knowledge, neglecting indigenous knowledge a…
Transforming Labour and Technology of the Ancient Tula Wells for Watering Livestock in Borana, Ethiopia
In southern Ethiopia, pastoralism has been possible due to complex ancient indigenous technology for excavating and rehabilitating the ancient tula wells. Despite centuries of operations, recent years have seen fundamental transformations in labour mobilisation and the technology for water harvesting, while hired labour is replacing clan-based labour organisation. Payments for well rehabilitation have changed from cattle to cash, while technologi…
Continuity and Change in Social Networks among Borana Women in Northern Kenya
This work explores informal marro reciprocity networks and formal women's groups among Waso Borana women in northern Kenya, across four variables: livelihood types, wealth ranks, age ranges and literacy levels. Marro exchanges rely on household resources, while women's groups are attractive due to financial benefits available from external sources. We found that all women in our study participate in the informal marro social networks, over-half r…
Righting the Wrongs
An indigenous time-related framework for reconstructing the impact of disasters on ancient water systems in southern Ethiopia, 1560–1950
Human stewardship or ruining cultural landscapes of the ancientTulawells, southern Ethiopia
This article uses the concepts of 'human stewardship' and 'ruined landscape' as a theoretical framework for analysing the community's perception of landscape change in the ancienttulawell system of Borana in southern Ethiopia. The ancienttulawell system, the main permanent water source, has been in operation for more than five centuries and it closely links human activity and the environment. The welfare of thetulawell system and the performance …
Colonial resource capture
This article uses the resource scarcity-violence model of Homer-Dixon (1999) to analyse the drivers of conflicts between ethnic groups that shared the pre-colonial ethnic frontiers of trans-Jubaland–Wajir and competed over water sources during the colonial period in the Northern Frontier District (NFD) of Kenya from 1903 to 1939. The article shows that pre-colonial ethnic conflicts were not induced by resource scarcity. Rather, extended periods o…
Is Poverty Driving Borana Herders in Southern Ethiopia to Crop Cultivation
Policy-driven Inter-ethnic Conflicts in Southern Ethiopia
Persistent inter-ethnic conflicts in southern Ethiopia have created a crisis in security of customary land tenure in the grazing lands. This article explores the links between government administrative policies and inter-ethnic conflicts on grazing resource borders by discussing the historical relationships between contesting pastoral groups, their perceptions of resource borders and how the groups used government policies of ethnic-based decentr…
Ciinna- the Borana Oromo narration of the 1890s Great Rinderpest epizootic in North Eastern Africa
During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, consecutive natural calamities occurred in North Eastern Africa that collapsed pastoral economies and forced human adaptations. A rinderpest epizootic and devastating famine characterized the period. Using oral narrations of the Borana Oromo of Southern Ethiopia, this paper discusses the impact of the Great Rinderpest of the 1890s on cattle, as well as the subsequent famine, and the beginning of …
Efficacy of Integrating Herder Knowledge and Ecological Methods for Monitoring Rangeland Degradation in Northern Kenya
Herder Perceptions on Impacts of Range Enclosures, Crop Farming, Fire Ban and Bush Encroachment on the Rangelands of Borana, Southern Ethiopia
The Importance of Pastoralists' Indigenous Coping Strategies for Planning Drought Management in the Arid Zone of Kenya
Drought survival among pastoralists in Africa is increasingly becoming arduous. Each drought results in dislocation of the poor, despite massive hand-outs of famine relief by governments and donors. Indeed, drought survival involves survival of the fabrics of the social security systems that must depend on survival of livestock, the ability to grow crops, marketing of the produce and sharing the resources (Sobania 1979). Development programs migh…
Policy-driven Inter-ethnic Conflicts in Southern Ethiopia
Persistent inter-ethnic conflicts in southern Ethiopia have created a crisis in security of customary land tenure in the grazing lands. This article explores the links between government administrative policies and inter-ethnic conflicts on grazing resource borders by discussing the historical relationships between contesting pastoral groups, their perceptions of resource borders and how the groups used government policies of ethnic-based decentr…
Herder Perceptions on Impacts of Range Enclosures, Crop Farming, Fire Ban and Bush Encroachment on the Rangelands of Borana, Southern Ethiopia
Is Poverty Driving Borana Herders in Southern Ethiopia to Crop Cultivation
The Importance of Pastoralists' Indigenous Coping Strategies for Planning Drought Management in the Arid Zone of Kenya
Drought survival among pastoralists in Africa is increasingly becoming arduous. Each drought results in dislocation of the poor, despite massive hand-outs of famine relief by governments and donors. Indeed, drought survival involves survival of the fabrics of the social security systems that must depend on survival of livestock, the ability to grow crops, marketing of the produce and sharing the resources (Sobania 1979). Development programs migh…
An indigenous time-related framework for reconstructing the impact of disasters on ancient water systems in southern Ethiopia, 1560–1950
Ciinna- the Borana Oromo narration of the 1890s Great Rinderpest epizootic in North Eastern Africa
During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, consecutive natural calamities occurred in North Eastern Africa that collapsed pastoral economies and forced human adaptations. A rinderpest epizootic and devastating famine characterized the period. Using oral narrations of the Borana Oromo of Southern Ethiopia, this paper discusses the impact of the Great Rinderpest of the 1890s on cattle, as well as the subsequent famine, and the beginning of …
Colonial resource capture
This article uses the resource scarcity-violence model of Homer-Dixon (1999) to analyse the drivers of conflicts between ethnic groups that shared the pre-colonial ethnic frontiers of trans-Jubaland–Wajir and competed over water sources during the colonial period in the Northern Frontier District (NFD) of Kenya from 1903 to 1939. The article shows that pre-colonial ethnic conflicts were not induced by resource scarcity. Rather, extended periods o…
Efficacy of Integrating Herder Knowledge and Ecological Methods for Monitoring Rangeland Degradation in Northern Kenya
Human stewardship or ruining cultural landscapes of the ancientTulawells, southern Ethiopia
This article uses the concepts of 'human stewardship' and 'ruined landscape' as a theoretical framework for analysing the community's perception of landscape change in the ancienttulawell system of Borana in southern Ethiopia. The ancienttulawell system, the main permanent water source, has been in operation for more than five centuries and it closely links human activity and the environment. The welfare of thetulawell system and the performance …
African Environmental Crisis
This book explores how and why the idea of the African environmental crisis developed and persisted through colonial and post-colonial periods, and why it has been so influential in development discourse. From the beginnings of imperial administration, the idea of the desiccation of African environments grew in popularity, but this crisis discourse was dominated by the imposition of imperial scientific knowledge, neglecting indigenous knowledge a…
Transforming Labour and Technology of the Ancient Tula Wells for Watering Livestock in Borana, Ethiopia
In southern Ethiopia, pastoralism has been possible due to complex ancient indigenous technology for excavating and rehabilitating the ancient tula wells. Despite centuries of operations, recent years have seen fundamental transformations in labour mobilisation and the technology for water harvesting, while hired labour is replacing clan-based labour organisation. Payments for well rehabilitation have changed from cattle to cash, while technologi…
Continuity and Change in Social Networks among Borana Women in Northern Kenya
This work explores informal marro reciprocity networks and formal women's groups among Waso Borana women in northern Kenya, across four variables: livelihood types, wealth ranks, age ranges and literacy levels. Marro exchanges rely on household resources, while women's groups are attractive due to financial benefits available from external sources. We found that all women in our study participate in the informal marro social networks, over-half r…
The Importance of Pastoralists' Indigenous Coping Strategies for Planning Drought Management in the Arid Zone of Kenya
Drought survival among pastoralists in Africa is increasingly becoming arduous. Each drought results in dislocation of the poor, despite massive hand-outs of famine relief by governments and donors. Indeed, drought survival involves survival of the fabrics of the social security systems that must depend on survival of livestock, the ability to grow crops, marketing of the produce and sharing the resources (Sobania 1979). Development programs migh…
Herder Perceptions on Impacts of Range Enclosures, Crop Farming, Fire Ban and Bush Encroachment on the Rangelands of Borana, Southern Ethiopia
Policy-driven Inter-ethnic Conflicts in Southern Ethiopia
Persistent inter-ethnic conflicts in southern Ethiopia have created a crisis in security of customary land tenure in the grazing lands. This article explores the links between government administrative policies and inter-ethnic conflicts on grazing resource borders by discussing the historical relationships between contesting pastoral groups, their perceptions of resource borders and how the groups used government policies of ethnic-based decentr…
Ciinna- the Borana Oromo narration of the 1890s Great Rinderpest epizootic in North Eastern Africa
During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, consecutive natural calamities occurred in North Eastern Africa that collapsed pastoral economies and forced human adaptations. A rinderpest epizootic and devastating famine characterized the period. Using oral narrations of the Borana Oromo of Southern Ethiopia, this paper discusses the impact of the Great Rinderpest of the 1890s on cattle, as well as the subsequent famine, and the beginning of …
Efficacy of Integrating Herder Knowledge and Ecological Methods for Monitoring Rangeland Degradation in Northern Kenya
Is Poverty Driving Borana Herders in Southern Ethiopia to Crop Cultivation
Human stewardship or ruining cultural landscapes of the ancientTulawells, southern Ethiopia
This article uses the concepts of 'human stewardship' and 'ruined landscape' as a theoretical framework for analysing the community's perception of landscape change in the ancienttulawell system of Borana in southern Ethiopia. The ancienttulawell system, the main permanent water source, has been in operation for more than five centuries and it closely links human activity and the environment. The welfare of thetulawell system and the performance …
Colonial resource capture
This article uses the resource scarcity-violence model of Homer-Dixon (1999) to analyse the drivers of conflicts between ethnic groups that shared the pre-colonial ethnic frontiers of trans-Jubaland–Wajir and competed over water sources during the colonial period in the Northern Frontier District (NFD) of Kenya from 1903 to 1939. The article shows that pre-colonial ethnic conflicts were not induced by resource scarcity. Rather, extended periods o…
An indigenous time-related framework for reconstructing the impact of disasters on ancient water systems in southern Ethiopia, 1560–1950
Righting the Wrongs
Continuity and Change in Social Networks among Borana Women in Northern Kenya
This work explores informal marro reciprocity networks and formal women's groups among Waso Borana women in northern Kenya, across four variables: livelihood types, wealth ranks, age ranges and literacy levels. Marro exchanges rely on household resources, while women's groups are attractive due to financial benefits available from external sources. We found that all women in our study participate in the informal marro social networks, over-half r…
Transforming Labour and Technology of the Ancient Tula Wells for Watering Livestock in Borana, Ethiopia
In southern Ethiopia, pastoralism has been possible due to complex ancient indigenous technology for excavating and rehabilitating the ancient tula wells. Despite centuries of operations, recent years have seen fundamental transformations in labour mobilisation and the technology for water harvesting, while hired labour is replacing clan-based labour organisation. Payments for well rehabilitation have changed from cattle to cash, while technologi…
African Environmental Crisis
This book explores how and why the idea of the African environmental crisis developed and persisted through colonial and post-colonial periods, and why it has been so influential in development discourse. From the beginnings of imperial administration, the idea of the desiccation of African environments grew in popularity, but this crisis discourse was dominated by the imposition of imperial scientific knowledge, neglecting indigenous knowledge a…
Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (11 obras) · Geography (8 obras) · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · African history and culture analysis (6 obras) · Ecology (5 obras) · Pastoralism (5 obras) · Economics (4 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Livestock (4 obras)