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Funding from NSF CNH Program
We received funding from the NSF Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH) program for our project Exploring social, ecological, and hydrological regime shifts in the Logone Floodplain…
East African Pastoralism Under Stress: Threats to Livestock, Land, and Way of Life
The Department of Anthropology and the Center for African Studies present East African Pastoralism Under Stress: Threats to Livestock, Land, and Way of Life by Dr. Elliot Fratkin, Professor…
Where Cows Are Happy and Food Is Healthy
NYT columnist NIcholas Kristof is visiting a farm in Yamhill County, Oregon, where a farmer knows all his 400 animals by name (like the pastoralists we work with in Cameroon). Kristof's …
Climate Governance: A matter of survival for nomadic pastoralists
Climate change is affecting communities across the globe, including African pastoralists. This video from Giacomo Rambaldi's PPGIS blog describes how Fulani pastoralists and other…
Research in and around the Wilds
We made a trip to the Wilds to visit the field site where Karla Moreno Torres, a graduate student in Preventative Veterinary Medicine, is conducting research in and around the Wilds to…
Governing Sustainable Fisheries in Cameroon
The Waza-Logone floodplain is part of lake Chad basin, an ecosystem that spreads from Chad to Cameroon. Over 200.000 people depend on its services for their livelihoods but due to social and…
RUMBA in Africa
Saidou Kari (CARPA), Hongyang Pi (UG), Mark Moritz (Anthropology), and Ian Hamilton (EEOB/Mathematics) conducting fieldwork in Cameroon for RUMBA (Research for Undergraduates: adventures in…
Full Circle
OSU media made a short movie about Kristen Ritchey’s undergraduate research project in Cameroon, where she examined herding contracts and labor relations between hired herders and absentee…
Nomads under pressure
“Nomads under Pressure” is a film made by Mouazamou Ahmadou, a visual anthropologist at the University of Maroua in Cameroon. He can be contacted at mouazamou@hotmail.com. Synopsis: Ce film…