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Not seeing the cattle for the elephants
Our paper on cattle raids as a source of funding for Boko Haram is out in the journal Conservation and Society. Pennaz, Alice Kelly, Mouadjamou Ahmadou, Mark Moritz, Paul Scholte. 2018. Not…
Paper in PLOS ONE
A paper from Karla Moreno-Torres' dissertation is published in the journal PLOS ONE. Here is the link and abstract: Pathogen transmission across species drives disease emergence; however,…
No Magic Number
Our paper "No magic number: An examination of the herd-size threshold in pastoral systems using agent-based modeling" has been published Human Ecology. Here is the abstract: Pastoralists who…
Bingo!
My piece on "How to teach about African foragers" has been published in Anthropology News. It is, of course, inspired by Binyavanga Wainaina's "How to write about Africa". "One of my favorite…
Coupled systems workshop in Cameroon
The first week of May 2017, 25 Master and Doctoral students from the universities of Maroua and Ngaoundéré gathered in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon, for the first research workshop on Coupled Human And…
Misreading a pastoral property regime
My paper on Misreading a pastoral property regime is out in Ecology and Society. The paper is a response to an article by Haller et al. (2013) in Ecology and Society titled “How fit…
Video about Aboukar Mahamat's work in the floodplain
A short video about the work of Aboukar Mahamat and CACID in the Logone Floodplain in Cameroon. The video celebrates the winner of the 2002 Equator Prize: CACID.
Blog post for EnviroSociety
I just published a blog post on EnviroSociety about studying African floodplains as coupled systems. The post is inspired by a quote from Gregory Bateson, “The major problems in the world are the…
New undergraduate researchers in the lab
In the last year, four new undergraduate researchers have joined the lab. They are working on a range of different but overlapping research projects. Sophia Kiselova-Sammons works on pastoralists…