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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 […]
28/05/2018
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Maasai losing the Serengeti
The report “Losing the Serengeti: the Maasai land that was to run forever” (2018, 42pp), issued by The Oakland Institute, exposes the hardships faced by Maasai herders in the Loliondo region of northern Tanzania, where Tanzania Conservation Limited (TLC) has purchased a 96-year lease to over 5000 ha. It looks at the history of land […]
28/05/2018
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How Europe could support pastoral dairying in Eastern Africa
06/05/2018
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Differing images of Nyangatom pastoralism in south Ethiopia
The article “Making sense of past, present and future: images of modern and past pastoralism among Nyangatom herders in South Omo, Ethiopia” by Jill Blau (2018, 11pp, published in the journal Land*), asks how Nyangatom pastoralists currently regard the past, present and future of their pastoralist livelihood. Like all agropastoralist groups in southern Ethiopia, the […]
29/04/2018
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Effectiveness of livestock insurance in managing climate risk in Ethiopia
Over the past four years, the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) collaborated with CIFA (Community Initiative Facilitation and Assistance), Oromia Insurance Company and ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute) in piloting index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) to protect Ethiopian livestock-keepers from drought‐related asset losses. The report “Participatory research on the effectiveness of index-based livestock insurance as […]
29/04/2018
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Pastoralist Field Schools improve pasture management in the Horn
During the past two decades, FAO and its partners have conducted Pastoralist Field Schools (PFSs) in the Horn of Africa. The brief document “Improving pasture management in arid and semi-arid lands in the Horn of Africa through Pastoralist Field Schools” (2018, 4pp) describes how their recent work with PFSs in Kenya (Mandera and Kajiado Counties) […]