Pastoralism & Extractives (page 1)
Land use for pastoralism & renewable energy in Kenya
At the Tropentag conference “’Competing pathways for equitable food systems transformation: trade-offs and synergies” in Berlin on 20–22 September 2023, Ann Waters-Bayer from the CELEP member organisation Agrecol Association for AgriCulture & Ecology presented a paper, co-authored with Hussein Wario, on “Climate justice in transforming land-use systems for food and renewable energy”. This was in […]
CELEP input to German Parliament discussion on green energy
On 25 May 2023, the German Parliament’s Office of Technology Assessment (TA) and Committee for Education, Research and TA held a workshop on “Chancen und Risiken von Wasserstoffpartnerschaften und –technologien in Entwicklungsländern” (Opportunities and risks of hydrogen partnerships and technologies in developing countries). Interim results from the TA project to assess the impact of “green” […]
Making green energy safe for pastoralists
One of the authors of the study on Pastoralism-and-large-scale-REnewable-energy-and-green-hydrogen-projects, Hussein Wario, Director of the Centre for Research & Development in Drylands (CRDD) in northern Kenya, gave his perspective on the study findings in a blog for Project Syndicate “Making green energy safe for pastoralists“ – also available in Spanish (Que la energiá verde sea segura para […]
Webinar: Pastoralism & renewable energy projects
Lake Turkana Wind Power farm, northern Kenya. Photo: Maurizio Di Pietro / Climate Visuals Countdown. Licence: CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 On 9 June 2022, the Heinrich Böll Foundation and Bread for the World Germany co-hosted an online discussion to launch the study on “Pastoralism and large-scale renewable energy & green hydrogen projects” researched and written by two […]
Energy economies and climate change in the drylands
Pastoralists use livestock to transform biomass into foods and goods. Business interests are increasingly competing with pastoralism for natural resources in the drylands that have long been considered marginal but have become a new frontier, also in the search for new sources of energy. The combination of high potential for renewable energy and low population […]