Adapting to climate change among transitioning Maasai pastoralists in southern Kenya: an intersectional analysis of differentiated abilities to benefit from diversification processes.

With increasingly fragmented rangelands, restricted mobility and climatic stress, diversification has accelerated among East African pastoralists. Diversification is also promoted as a climate change adaptation strategy to reduce exposure. Through study of Maasai communal land in southern Kenya, we analyze how pastoralists navigate changing access key productive resources that are linked processes, social differentiation, the reshaping livelihood practices. By integrating an intersectional approach theory, unpack deeper level context specific patterns inclusion exclusion embedded within evolving production relations.