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.
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Our vision
Improvement of Rangeland in Pastoral Areas (IRPA), 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, started 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.
“Our vision is rooted in thriving pastoral communities in healthy, resilient and productive rangelands.“
Our Mission
Discover the overarching goal of the project – restore and sustainably manage rangelands while improving pastoral livelihoods through community empowerment, livestock development, climate-smart innovations, research, market systems strengthening and policy advocacy.
“Our Mission is to empower pastoral communities through sustainable rangeland management, livestock development, and inclusive economic opportunities.”
