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Hired herder

Herding contracts and pastoral mobility

Our paper Herding Contracts and Pastoral Mobility in the Far North Region of Cameroon has been published in Human Ecology. Here is the abstract: In the last four decades there has been a shift in…

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NIAS seminar

I led a NIAS seminar on March 12, 2015, on modeling a complex adaptive system, in which I focused on the methodology of building simple models of complex systems. Here is the abstract: While open…

Cattle in Lake Maga area

One Year, Two Plains

One Year, Two Plains is a film by Mouazamou Ahmadou and Albert K. Drent (2015), produced by the Visual Anthropology Laboratory at the University of Maroua, published by Columbus, Ohio: Knowledge Bank…

Global Conference On Inland Fisheries

Global Conference On Inland Fisheries

Sui Phang presented our MORSL project at the Global Conference On Inland Fisheries held at the FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy 26-28 January 2015. The presentation A dam by a thousand canals:…

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International Scholarship Symposium

Elizabeth Gardiner is presenting her research on land grabs in Burkina Faso at the inaugural International Scholarship Symposium organized by the International Affairs Faculty Council. The symposium…

Research Seminars Spring 2015

Presentation at my alma mater

I presented my research on how mobile pastoralists manage common-pool grazing resources in the Logone Floodplain in a research seminar on February 2, 2015, at my alma mater: Leiden University. I also…

Musgum fisherman

Anthropology and Environment Profile Photo Winner

Sarah Laborde, Postdoctoral Researcher in the MORSL lab is the 2014 Profile Picture Winner of the Anthropology and Environment Society. Sarah is working with an interdisciplinary team on the Modeling…

indigenous Knowledge

Special Feature in Ecology and Society

The special feature on Conceptual, Methodological, Practical, and Ethical Challenges in Studying and Applying Indigenous Knowledge has been published in Ecology and Society. The special feature came…

Canaries

Muddying the Waters

Our paper Muddying the Waters: A New Area of Concern for Drinking Water Contamination in Cameroon has been published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (10.3390…