Claudia Carr is Associate Professor Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches courses related to international rural development policy. She has spent decades engaged in field-based research and consulting in pastoral regions of East Africa/the Horn, in combination with policy-based work in both African governmental and non-governmental contexts as well as Northern based ones, including the National Research Council's Board on Science and Technology in International Development and an Advisory Panel on river basin development. She is the author of a previous book on the Ethiopia-Kenya-South Sudan region, Pastoralism in Crisis The Dassanech of Southwest Ethiopia, along with several articles and reports.