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.
 
Sources:
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
David Wright, S.L. Forman
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Wright/publication/281536573_Holocene_occupation_of_the_Mount_Porr_strand_plain_in_southern_Lake_Turkana_Kenya/links/55f7f62a08aeafc8ac080dfe.pdf
 
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
Edmund Geoffrey Barrow
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