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01/06/2021
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Pastoralism is the future – animated video
Man-made climate change is creating conditions on our planet that are increasingly characterised by variability and unpredictability. Pastoralists use variability to their advantage. Their production systems guide us to a sustainable future. Find out how they do it in this 2:23-min animated video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeqITzac9Ac This video film was created by Cartoonbase and realised by CELEP […]
05/03/2022
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Impact of green-energy projects on pastoralists
The paper “Rush for the “wastelands”: revaluing pastoral land in the light of renewable energy”(2022) (Green energy + pastoralism paper, Powerpoint slides) by Ann Waters-Bayer and Hussein Tadicha Wario, was based on a study commissioned by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and Brot für die Welt in Germany. It looked into how large-scale green-energy projects affect […]
24/02/2022
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Effects of livestock raiding on herd mobility & size in Kenya
The drylands of Kenya are characterised by temporal and spatial climatic variation, making availability of resources uneven. Mobility is a key strategy of pastoralists to efficiently use available pasture and water. Livestock rustling/ raiding disturbs this strategy. The article “Effects of cattle rustling and household characteristics on migration decisions and herd size amongst pastoralists in […]
15/01/2022
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Ecological vulnerability through livestock insurance?
Increasingly frequent and severe droughts pose a big challenge for pastoralists in the Horn of Africa. Livestock drought insurance (LDI) is being tested as a means to manage these risks. In the article “Ecological vulnerability through insurance? Potential unintended consequences of livestock drought insurance” (2019), published in Ecological Economics 157: 357–368, Felix John and co-authors […]
14/01/2022
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Borana views on impact of water development on rangelands
The study “Effects of traditional and project waterponds and herder perception on the vegetation changes in Borana rangelands of southern Oromia, Ethiopia” by Chaltu Dula Buyo (Noragric MSc thesis, 2006, 42pp) compared project and traditional waterponds in terms of vegetation diversity and effects of distance from water on plant species richness and land cover. It […]
24/12/2021
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Merry Christmas
