Team Members
Dr Edmore Masaire is a veterinary scientist, a former University of Namibia senior lecturer, a researcher, and livestock development practitioner with nearly 30 years of experience across Southern and Eastern Africa in community-based animal health, regenerative grazing, and rangeland restoration. He combines technical veterinary expertise with strong programme management and mentoring skills that he acquired over the years of managing programs and people. For nearly two decades, Dr Masaire has worked with communal livestock and rangeland improvement projects that are built on holistic management and regeneration science- leading feasibility studies, capacity-building, and the training of over 1,000 professional herders and Farmer facilitators across Namibia, South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Lesotho. He has extensive experience mentoring multidisciplinary teams, strengthening market access, and supporting local institutions to sustain regenerative livestock systems. Dr Masaire’s leadership continues to advance the One Health and H4H’s vision of healthy people, healthy rangelands, and healthy wildlife across Africa’s Transfrontier conservation landscapes.
Our Challenge
Uncontrolled animal movement is one of the biggest challenges in communal rangelands. Livestock that is not kraaled and herded properly results in:
- Rangeland degradation
- Predation
- Disease transmission through contact with wildlife
- Poor herd health (high mortality and morbidity)
- Poor production
- Stock theft
- Tourism conflict
- Poor market and trade confidence
Our Opportunity
Regaining livestock movement control in communal rangelands through skills development, improved resources and incentives can lead to multiple positive effects.
