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Complex Systems Digital Campus (CS-DC)
Together with Elizabeth Gardiner and Amber Johnson I presented preliminary results of our Comparative study of Pastoral Tenure Systems at the CS-DC'15, the first world e-conference organized by the…
Abigail Buffington awarded NSF grant
Abby Buffington, who is working on our EAGER project, has received word that her National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG) proposal has been approved for…
Confronting Drought in Africa's Drylands
The World Bank report on resilience in Africa's drylands is available on the web as conference edition or a work in progress for the forthcoming book, Confronting Drought in Africa’s Drylands:…
Governance of Rangelands
The book Governance of Rangelands: Collective Action for Sustainable Pastoralism, edited by Pedro Herrera Jonathan Davies, and Pablo Manzano Baena is freely available through the IUCN website.
Elizabeth Gardiner awarded Borlaugh Fellowship
Elizabeth Gardiner was awarded a Borlaug Fellowship in Global Food Security ($29,323) to support her dissertation research in Burkina Faso on the impacts of land privatization on food security. The…
Examining social-ecological dynamics in Cameroon
The fieldwork of our MORSL postdoctoral researchers is featured on the website of the Office of international Affairs. Sarah Laborde, Department of Anthropology, and Sui Phang, Department of…
ASC Spotlight
Pallavi Oruganti, an undergraduate researcher in our DECML lab is profiled on the Arts and Science College website.
Review paper in Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
Our review paper on models of foot-and-mouth disease was published online first in the journal Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. The lead author is Laura Pomeroy, a postdoctoral researcher in our…
NSF RAPID grant
An NSF RAPID is supporting our research on the impact of refugee pastoralists from Nigeria on the pastoral ecosystem in the Logone Floodplain of Cameroon. Here is the summary from the NSF website…