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Climate Change got you down? Worried about the fact that *everything* seems to be getting worse? Wondering how we got to this point in the first place, and what can we do to build a more resilient future? We take a look at historical pastoral & agricultural societies to see what worked and what didn’t, as well as what resources we have today to make better decisions to build equitable systems. We don’t just discuss ecology and history but also take a leftist perspective on prepping, foraging, homesteading, weapons, community-building, and basically anything that needs discussing during late-stage capitalism.
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Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
Arid Agriculture & the Communalism of the Turkana
Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
In this episode, we explore the evolution of the indigenous people of Lake Turkana. We look at how their subsistence farming evolved with a rapidly shifting climate and how both the ecology benefits from human involvement & how a unique collectivist and individualist community format allows for the community to quickly change practices to meet the unpredictable landscape. We wrap it up talking about the damages of colonialism on these resilient communities.
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Usufruct Rights to Trees: The Role of Ekwar in Dryland Central Turkana, Kenya
Edmund G. C. Barrow
https://sci-hub.se/https://www.jstor.org/stable/4602963?seq=1
Impacts of shifting agriculture on a floodplain woodland regeneration in dryland, Kenya
G. Oba, N.C. Stenseth, & R.B. Weladji
sci-hub.se/10.1016/S0167-8809(01)00355-3
Land Use, Ecology, and Socio-economic Changes in a Pastoral Production System
M. Okoti, J.C. Ng'ethe, W.N. Ekaya, & D. M. Mbuvi
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09709274.2004.11905720
Holocene occupation of the Mount Porr strand plain in southern Lake Turkana, Kenya
Indigenous management systems as a basis for community forestry in Tanzania
George C. Kajembe
https://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/wurpubs/fulltext/117147
The value of traditional knowledge in present-day soil conservation practice: the example of West Pokot and Turkana
file:///C:/Users/Andy/Downloads/SoilConPokot-Turkana1986-208.pdf
Ethnobotany of the Turkana: Use of Plants by a Pastoral People and Their Livestock in Kenya
W. T. W. Morgan
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4254252?seq=1
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