Faced with intensifying geographic confinement and overgrazing of lands they have inhabited for centuries, pastoral groups in the Sudan-Ethiopia-Kenya trans-border region have increasingly turned to alternative survival strategies - namely, recession (flood) cultivation, along with fishing in the Omo River and throughout Kenya's Lake Turkana. Already partially constructed but not yet fully funded, The Gibe III hydrodam would radically reduce the Omo River's flow and the waters of Lake Turkana, thus destroying all subsistence activities within the region. Join us for a discussion of these critical issues and the potential for a full-scale collapse of indigenous economies and massive scale starvation throughout the trans-border area.