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Fieldwork in the Floodplain

Our Cameroonian MORSL research team in is currently conducting fieldwork in the Logone Floodplain, collecting data for the social, fishery, and hydraulic models that we are developing.

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The governance of rangelands

Our article Rangeland Governance in an Open System: Protecting Transhumance Corridors in the Far North Province of Cameroon has been reprinted in an edited volume on the Governance of…

Overgrazing narratives

Last week I wrote a letter to editor of the NRC, a daily newspaper in the Netherlands, in response to an article in the Science Section that described a hydrological model of atmospheric moisture…

MORSL Postdoctoral Researcher Alfonso Fernández

Alfonso Fernández is a Physical Geographer with interests in hydroclimatic sciences. He obtained a Bachelor in Geography at the Universidad de Chile, and a Masters in Sciences (Freshwater…

Review: Pastoralism in Africa: Past, Present and Future

My review of Pastoralism in Africa: Past, Present and Future has been published in Nomadic Peoples. The edited volume Pastoralism in Africa: Past, Present, and Future, is an overview of a…

Opening Academic Year at the NIAS

I have started working on my book manuscript Emergent Commons: How Pastoralists avoid a Tragedy of the Commons in West Africa at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies (

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Our paper "Ideal Free Distributions of Mobile Pastoralists within Multiple Seasonal Grazing Areas" is available online on the Rangeland Ecology and Management website. Here is a brief summary of…

Environmental Policy Initiative

Ohio State’s Environmental Policy Initiative (EPI), which is directed by Professor Brent Sohngen, offers a yearly summer research grant for OSU graduate students who are preparing doctoral…

African Deltas Conference

Saidou Kari, one of our main collaborators from Centre d’Appui a la Recherche et au Pastoralisme (CARPA), presented our MORSL project at the International conference on African Deltas in Dar es…