‘The land has become empty’: The climate crisis, Somali nomadic pastoralists and livestock enclosures
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This paper contributes to scholarship on climate change education and action, sustainability, co-production, nomadic pastoralism, livestock enclosures and Somalia. It does so by examining the nomadic pastoralist practice in Somalia of cutting down bushes and trees to create livestock enclosures. It shows that the climate crisis is making this practice unsustainable. The qualitative research methods used were literature reviews, situated knowledges and lived experiences, co-production, survey interviews and focus group discussions. The project was designed as an exercise in climate change education and action which integrates scientific and indigenous and local knowledge. The approach used enable an understanding of why enclosures are used and therefore what factors have to be considered in moving towards more sustainable practices that contribute to effective climate action. The paper reports a potentially valuable reforestation climate action generated from the nomadic pastoralist community: livestock enclosures made from living trees.
Authors: Eric Herring, Jama Adam, Amal Ali
Institution: University of Bristol
Language: English
Subfield: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDGs: Climate action, Life on land
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7118369874
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