Improvement of Rangeland in Pastoral Areas (IRPA) Longido missions 2024
Longido is situated in the Arusha Region at the northern Tanzania and Kenya border. It is a home to the Maasai community who are known for their unique nomadic life, hopping from one land to another seeking for pastures and water for their stock.
The area is characterized by the semi-arid climate whereby it faces longer dry seasons and very short rain seasons. The temperature varies between day times, evenings and mornings, with hot sun during the day, sometimes windy. The nights and mornings are breezy and cold. The wind washes the upper soil especially when disturbed and creates infertility.
Our vision
Improvement of Rangeland in Pastoral Areas (IRPA) Longido missions 2024
The characteristics have triggered a wide bare land and depleted the common nomadic practices, forced the popular and famous Maasai tribe to slowly turn their back from cultural and pastoral activities, starting practicing unpredictable peasantry and fallen into severe poverty. The peasantry has resulted in deforestation which allows the wind to increase in velocity and causes more serious damage to the environment.
The area is slowly turning into desert leaving the local community with no sustainable economic activities which resulted into being guards in townships, sell traditional medicine which again is the activity that risks the sustainability of the plants subjected for the trade, they finally go back to their homes after a longer period of time, some of them carries fatal disease to their families which when the situation is not intervened, the entire community shall fall endangered
improvement of rangeland in pastoral areas
IRPA
“Our vision is rooted in the transformation of Tanzanian pastoral communities into vibrant, green havens of sustainability and prosperity. Through our efforts, we aim to cultivate not just vegetation, but also hope, resilience, and abundance in every corner of our beloved land. Together, let’s sow the seeds of a greener, more arable future for all Tanzanians.”
Our mission
Discover the overarching goal of the project – to restore native rangelands and enhance pastoral community livelihoods. Explore the detailed objectives, including the establishment of participatory groups and the introduction of high-breed livestock species.
Objective-1
To restore the rangelands to their previous status while enhancing the pastoral livelihood through optimizing economic productivity
Objective-2
To engage the local communities to conservation education and forming active participation groups in various villages and households to initiate native plants nurseries establishment
Objective-3
To empower the local communities through imparting rangeland management techniques which will assist the sustainable and productive use of the rangelands, introducing high breed livestock to the pastorals and initiating livestock product processing units
Objective-4
Discover the positive impact of IRPA on rare wildlife species, such as the Gerenuk. Understand how habitat restoration and sustainable rangeland management play a crucial role in preserving biodiversity.
