During our interviews with the stakeholders, we were intrigued to hear it said many times – “that it is a wife’s job to build a house”. This photograph shows the claim as proof. I watched as she carefully daubs the exterior, whilst the husband made...
Trampling by increasing cattle along trackways impacts on soil vulnerability. This exposes the soil to damage by rainfall impact. It flows more readily over damaged soils and then gullies form....
Soils in the region are inherently unstable and, once vegetation cover is lost, rainwater quickly washes away the topsoil through sheet-erosion....
Gullies dissect the landscape making it difficult for people to walk between communities and move livestock to new ground. Fragile crossing points become dangerous. In a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the bridge, locals have tried to stabilize this 8 metre deep gully with chopped branches....
Where gullies join, flowing storm water creates deep incisions in the landscape. This one is 8 metres deep....
Over the past 10 years, the Tanzanian Maasai landscape has witnessed a dramatic increase in soil erosion with almost total destruction of the soil resource in many areas used for grazing of livestock....
This couple live within a traditional Maasai enclosure. They have lived here all thier lives, and now nearly 70 years later, they talk of the massive change in the landscape they have witnessed....
During one of our drives deep inland, we stopped at a watering hole for a break. As each of us stepped out of the trucks for a welcome chance to stretch, I spotted this young Maasai spying on us from far away on top of...
Not far from the Baobob tree was a mother with three small children, again peering down, but their mother hurrying to “shoo” them away. Unlike western children, Maasai girls and boys have shaved heads, for apparently hair is a sign of assertiveness – and warriors are...
Conservation agriculture is not without its own issues. Here, collapse of historic terraces from the colonial period has contributed to “bad lands” formation....