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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 […]
14/02/2020
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Potential for carbon sequestration in Eastern African grasslands
The review article “Potential for soil organic carbon sequestration in grasslands in East African countries” by Bezaye Tessema et al (CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land & Ecosystems) published in 2020 in Grassland Science, summarises quantitative studies on soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration in grasslands in six Eastern African countries (Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania […]
22/01/2020
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One Health in pastoral Ethiopia
In recent years in pastoral areas of developing countries, the One Health approach has gained greater credibility and visibility as a way to combine interventions for both human and animals. However, relatively little attention in the work on One Health has been given thus far to the component of environmental health, i.e. the health of the […]
22/01/2020
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Pastoralist women’s rights & leadership forums in Tanzania
In an effort to open up opportunities for pastoralist women to secure their access to land, the Pastoral Women’s Council (PWC), Ujamaa Community Resource Team (UCRT) and Maliasili Initiatives (MI) are involved in a project “Advancing the Rights of Pastoral Women in Tanzania” in Maasai communities in northern Tanzania. The ILRI Rangelands Research Report 3 […]
22/01/2020
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Implications of Ethiopian pastoralist household dynamics for humanitarian aid
For many humanitarian aid actors, the household (HH) is presumed to be the most appropriate social unit for aid delivery. However, it fails to represent the complex structures of pastoralist families and their temporal and spatial dynamics. This can have significant implications for aid targeting. In the context of a severe drought and the humanitarian […]
08/01/2020
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