Question

How did maasai lose their grazing lands

Answer 1

Answer:

The Maasai community have lost their grazing lands due to the following reasons:

Explanation:

The Maasai community was pushed into a small area in South Kenya and North Tanzania which considerably reduced their grazing lands. 3. From the late 19th century, The British colonial rulers promoted cultivation on pasture lands.

Answer 2

Answer:

HERE IS YOUR ANSWER!!

Following reasons are responsible for the loss of their  grazing land :

(i) Encroachment by European settlers : In precolonial times, Maasailand was extended in a  vast area from north Kenya to the steppes of  northern Tanzania. In the late nineteenth century,  European imperial powers fought for territorial  possessions in Africa and divided the region  into different colonies. In 1885, Maasailand was  divided between British and Germany and two  colonies came into existence i.e., British Kenya  and German Tanganyika. Later, the best grazing  lands were step by step taken over for white  settlement and the Maasai were forced to live in  a small area in south Kenya and north Tanzania  which was an arid zone with uncertain rainfall  and poor pastures. The Maasai lost about 60 per

cent of their pre-colonial lands.

(ii) Expansion of agriculture : From the late nineteenth  century, the British colonial government in east Africa encouraged local peasant communities

to expand cultivation. With the expansion of  cultivation, a large part of pasturelands were  turned into cultivated fields. In pre-colonial times,

the Maasai pastoralists had economic and political  dominance over the farmer villagers. By the end  of colonial rule the maasais became economically  and politically weak.

(iii) Establishment of game reserves : A large part of  the grazing land was converted into game reserves. Maasai Mara and Samburu National Park in

Kenya and Serengeti Park in Tanzania were some  game reserves established by the colonial powers.  Pastoralists could not enter these reserves. There  were restrictions on hunt of animals and grazing  of herds in game reserves.

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