Kenya: As Pastoralist Land Shrinks, Maasai Women Take Livestock Lead

Enaibosho — On a cold afternoon, three women are gathering dry grass and feeding it into a hand-operated baling machine. In no time, a bale of hay emerges and is hefted onto a waiting pile partially covered with plastic sheeting.

The three Maasai women - Mary Nkaru, Susan Tonuo and Charity Kokwai - used to find enough grass for their cattle on their community's big communally owned ranches in southern Kenya.

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