Quoting from above “a goat herder called Stephen Esekon who explains that,” “The goats allow us to send our children to school. We pay for everything we need with the money from keeping them. They are our only source of income.”
Herein lies the problem. Trying to extract a monetary income from a natural system, as well as presumably government taxes. Using an oxygen-pricing system rather than a carbon-pricing system with its inherent systemic corruption, these pastoralists could be compensated without risking depleting the grasslands resource. I have witnessed “ancestral” grazing practices destroy good pasture, and that carries on regardless of continuous education and successful demonstrations of better practice. This shows the truth of Mordecai Ogada’s statement for supporting the pastoralists. They can have better grazing systems support and relief from excessive economic burden.
It's not the ancestral grazing practices that are destroying good pasture. It's the fact that foreigners have taken enormous swaths of land away from the indigenous groups and corralled them into small tracts of land that then get overgrazed. If the non-Indigenous Euro-descendant settlers returned those vast tracts of land to the indigenous pastoralists who originally owned them, so they could resume their ancestral nomadic grazing patterns, this would not even be a problem. Let's acknowledge the real source of the issue.
Yes, that's all true. But I've seen multiple instances of the pastoralists having to run too many animals for the available pasture growth rate, in order to sustain some income. My point is that they should be funded separately from proceeds from their herds, since trying to extract money, capitalizing on the resource, is the primary damage to any ecosystem, regardless of who is the doing it. Yes, all the land-grabs in Africa should stop, whether done by economic actors or the new "green" neo-colonialism of carbon and biodiversity credits/offsets. That should include right-of-title for Indigenous lands, as well as exempting those lands from government's capitalization of the resource by taxation. There IS no capital to extract from a functioning ecosystem without diminishing it.
How nice to see Mordecai Ogada mentioned. Just finished listening to a presentation by him.
Quoting from above “a goat herder called Stephen Esekon who explains that,” “The goats allow us to send our children to school. We pay for everything we need with the money from keeping them. They are our only source of income.”
Herein lies the problem. Trying to extract a monetary income from a natural system, as well as presumably government taxes. Using an oxygen-pricing system rather than a carbon-pricing system with its inherent systemic corruption, these pastoralists could be compensated without risking depleting the grasslands resource. I have witnessed “ancestral” grazing practices destroy good pasture, and that carries on regardless of continuous education and successful demonstrations of better practice. This shows the truth of Mordecai Ogada’s statement for supporting the pastoralists. They can have better grazing systems support and relief from excessive economic burden.
It's not the ancestral grazing practices that are destroying good pasture. It's the fact that foreigners have taken enormous swaths of land away from the indigenous groups and corralled them into small tracts of land that then get overgrazed. If the non-Indigenous Euro-descendant settlers returned those vast tracts of land to the indigenous pastoralists who originally owned them, so they could resume their ancestral nomadic grazing patterns, this would not even be a problem. Let's acknowledge the real source of the issue.
Yes, that's all true. But I've seen multiple instances of the pastoralists having to run too many animals for the available pasture growth rate, in order to sustain some income. My point is that they should be funded separately from proceeds from their herds, since trying to extract money, capitalizing on the resource, is the primary damage to any ecosystem, regardless of who is the doing it. Yes, all the land-grabs in Africa should stop, whether done by economic actors or the new "green" neo-colonialism of carbon and biodiversity credits/offsets. That should include right-of-title for Indigenous lands, as well as exempting those lands from government's capitalization of the resource by taxation. There IS no capital to extract from a functioning ecosystem without diminishing it.