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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…
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…
Time is a fabulous thing
My RUMBA student Hongyang Pi made a great film about her first 700 days at OSU, what it means to be a Buckeye, and her trip to Cameroon in March 2011 with my collaborator Ian…
Article published in Human Ecology
Our article Can One Animal Represent an Entire Herd? Modeling Pastoral Mobility Using GPS/GIS Technology has been published online first in Human Ecology. In the article we…
NSF highlight
My NSF CAREER project Pastoral Management of Open Access: The Emergence of a Complex Adaptive System, (BCS-0748594) is featured on the research.gov website. However, if I were…
NSF funding for workshop on challenges in modeling the spatial and temporal dimensions of the ecology of infectious diseases
We received support from the National Science Foundation to organize a workshop: Challenges in modeling the spatial and temporal dimensions of the ecology of infectious diseases, Ningchuan Xiao …