Nomadic Mechanism
Landscape Design Research Project A+B
RMIT University
The project looks to delve into spreading desertification occurs in Chad, Africa and address a series of problems that threaten the sustainability of local predominant group’s livelihood caused by desertification as a result of conflicts over resources in land between farmers and pastoralists which consequently accelerated the pressure on environmental resources. The objective is to re-balance the two elements though integrating with existing mobility of corridor to recover complexity of ecosystem.
The regenerating corridor provides with extra transhumant pattern for pastoralists, according to an almost invariable cyclical scheme, dictated by annual ecological and climatic conditions in an area within which several sectors are successively grazed during the year.
These annual herd movements take place in succession. The extent of herd movements is highly variable, generally running in a north-south direction at the onset of the dry season, and a south-north direction at the onset of the rainy season.