On 30th March 216, the REAL ITN, in collaboration with the African Conservation Centre, held a workshop on the theme of “Ecosystem Dynamics, Conservation Practices and Land Use in East Africa” at the British Institute in Eastern Africa in Nairobi. The idea and aim of the workshop was to look at aspects of land use, […]
REAL Visits Mount Suswa Conservancy
March 31st is one of my most favourite field visits. It was most honourable to have almost the entire REAL group visit one of my field sites – Mount Suswa, after a conservation training in Nairobi. Not only was visiting Suswa a break from the city, it was an opportunity to visit a conservancy, one conservation […]
Field Diary Call for Contributions
The first issue of the Field Diary brought together a collection of fieldwork-themed stories from many parts of the world including, Kenya, Tanzania, Burkina Faso, and New Zealand. It is available here: http://www.real-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Field-Diary-issue-1.pdf The Field Diary is a digital open-access newsletter that highlights and promotes the human perspective of conducting fieldwork anywhere in the world by all groups working for companies, government, development/conservation/missionary […]
“People and Land” – The REAL magazine is out now!
We proudly present “People and Land” – a magazine published by the REAL research group! Stories about steaming landscapes, the life of a pollen grain, lost archives, cows on a bridge, forgotten peace, dung and mud and much more ……it’s all in there! In this collection of articles, the REAL Early Stage Researchers take you […]
International Postgraduate Conference – Dar es Salaam
10th AND 11th AUGUST, 2015 PROGRAMME Venue: Council chamber – University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Conference organization and source of Funding The postgraduate conference in Dar es salaam can be considered part of REAL Training events because it received enough support from the project financially and administratively. Prof. David Anderson and Maxmillian Chuhila took […]
REAL MID-TERM MEETING
The REAL mid-term meeting was hosted at the University of Ghent by Prof. Dirk Veschuren and his team. A special thanks to Yoeri Torsy for arranging the details that made it such an enjoyable meeting. From the 15th-19th June 2015, the REAL team members spent time together updating each other on their research progress,discussed the […]
Scientific video documentary production training
British Institute in Eastern Africa, Kileleshwa, Nairobi June 1-6, 2015 Documenting socio-ecological changes on film within a research framework – from writing to editing REAL : Resilience in East African Landscapes A Marie Curie Actions Initial Training Network (ITN), funded by the European Commission Instructors: • Arghyro Paouri, CNRS-IIAC, Audiovisual Department of IIAC. • Deborah […]
UNIVERSITY OF YORK REAL-CAPACITIE-AAREA TRAINING WORKSHOP
The University of York hosted a 6 day training workshop for the REAL members and also invited participants from the environment department and other research groups (CAPACITIE, AAREA, ENVIRON). This was held at the University of York Heslington East Campus and the Department of Archaeology, Kings Manor. The training course 24th-26th was aimed at imparting […]
Environment, Expertise and Development in Copenhagen
PhD Course in ‘Environment, Expertise and Development’ at University of Copenhagen Between August 11th and 14th the scholars Arun Agrawal, Jesse Ribot and Andrea Nightingale visited Department of Food and Resource Economics for a PhD course arranged by Professor Christian Lund and Associate Professor Jens Friis Lund. Marie and Annemiek participated. Taking a point of […]
Collecting historical data in Rhodes House and the National Archives
Studying archival sources can be a way to triangulate and contextualise a social science study of social-ecological relations in Kenya. One can study Kenya’s recent past by examining colonial district records of the times of the British colonial involvement in Kenya – mostly from the 1910s to the 1970s. Such files and reports are available […]
Project Overview – Resilience in East African Landscapes (REAL)
Project summary The strong temporal dynamics of the East African landscape and natural-resource distributions have always encouraged people to innovate and adapt to changing conditions. However, the realities of current social and environmental changes are occurring at unprecedented rates and amplitudes. Increasing population growth, changes in patterns of land tenure, industrialization, weak systems of governance, […]
Exploratory fieldwork – March 2014
For the preparation of their fieldwork Annemiek and Marie visited their research sites in Laikipia. This included meetings with various experts, researchers, institutions and other professionals relevant for the research area, such as ICRAF, ILRI, CETRAD, Laikipia Wildlife Forum, the Kenya National Archives, NEMA and local offices for forestry and land. Furthermore, they participated in […]