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SAR seminar
We just wrapped up our Research Team Seminar at the School for Advanced Research (SAR) to discuss what explains the sustainability of open property regimes. Here is the abstract. The goal of the…
Award for DECML student Silas
Sevidzem Silas Lendzele, one of the DECML graduate students from Cameroon, won the prize for Best Poster from an FMD-Endemic Region at the recent Global FMD Research Alliance conference. He did a…
Why blaming ivory poaching on Boko Haram isn’t helpful
Together with Alice Kelly Pennaz, Mouadjamou Ahmadou, and Paul Scholte, I published a new piece in The Conversation titled Why blaming ivory poaching on Boko Haram isn’t helpful. It is a longer…
USFWS workshop
I presented a paper on the Impacts of Boko Haram on transhumance in the Far North Region of Cameroon for a USFWS workshop on Transhumant Pastoralism in Africa's Sudano-Sahel.
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 seeing…
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, mechanisms…
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 depend…
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 courses…
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…