Let’s start a list of notable questions typically NOT asked in pastoralist development. . .

Please add yours to the following:

–What would pastoralist policy look like if gleaned solely from statements in leaked government documents and NGO emails?

–When young herders wait around before, during and after herding, are they functioning like gig workers?

–Water, as they say, is life, and the “r” in “water” is for its reliability. Do people understand then that this means adopting, repurposing and inventing water infrastructures as daily lives necessarily change, and not just for pastoralists?

–If we do not routinely ask pastoralists about their voting behavior, what does that imply about our notions of their citizenship?

–If more than half of the world’s population is now urban, should one of the first tasks of pastoralist research be to differentiate the urban populations in terms of being pro-pastoralist, anti-pastoralist, or otherwise (think of the Gen-Z protesters in Kenya)?