state the reasons for steady decline of the animal stock of the pastrolist in moasailand
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a. The lives of the pastoralists have changed dramatically during the colonial period.
b. In 1885, for example, Maasailand was divided between the British Kenya and German Tanganyika. Due to which it lost its best grazing land .
c. The British colonial government also encouraged local peasant communities to expand cultivation thereby converting pasture lands into cultivated fields.
d. Large areas of grazing land were also turned into game reserves . Pastoralists were not allowed to enter these reserves.
e. This indeed created pressure on small pieces of land for the pastoralists.
f. Feeding the cattle became a problem as both quality and quantity of fodder was effected.
g. Pastoralists were cut off from the best grazing lands and were confined.
h. Droughts , famine craeted scarcity, laeding to deaths of cattle on a large scale.
i. New laws and regulations took away their land and restricted their movement.
j. Grazing ground shrank for both communities.New laws, new borders affected the pattern of the movements the communities.
k. They lost their grazing ground which were converted into reserves, they could neither hunt animals nor graze their herds, lost their customary rights, taxes were imposed on every cattle they grazed.
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a. The lives of the pastoralists have changed dramatically during the colonial period.
b. In 1885, for example, Maasailand was divided between the British Kenya and German Tanganyika. Due to which it lost its best grazing land .
c. The British colonial government also encouraged local peasant communities to expand cultivation thereby converting pasture lands into cultivated fields.
d. Large areas of grazing land were also turned into game reserves . Pastoralists were not allowed to enter these reserves.
e. This indeed created pressure on small pieces of land for the pastoralists.
f. Feeding the cattle became a problem as both quality and quantity of fodder was effected.
g. Pastoralists were cut off from the best grazing lands and were confined.
h. Droughts , famine craeted scarcity, laeding to deaths of cattle on a large scale.
i. New laws and regulations took away their land and restricted their movement.
j. Grazing ground shrank for both communities.New laws, new borders affected the pattern of the movements the communities.
k. They lost their grazing ground which were converted into reserves, they could neither hunt animals nor graze their herds, lost their customary rights, taxes were imposed on every cattle they grazed.
Hope this helped u
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