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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 […]
27/03/2018
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Kenyan dairy-sector learning tour
21/03/2018
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Pastoral policies in Ethiopia 1991–2008
The report “Retrospective assessment of pastoral policies in Ethiopia, 1991–2008” (2010, 30pp) by Peter Little et al was the first report in a series of four papers on pastoral economic growth and development in Ethiopia that was commissioned by the Department for International Development (DfID) at the request of the Government of Ethiopia. This report […]
20/03/2018
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Putting drought in its context in Eastern Africa
The 10-page well-illustrated article “Drought does not work alone” (2017) by Roger Few, University of East Anglia, comes out of the work of the ASSAR (Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions) project. ASSAR uses insights from multiple-scale, interdisciplinary work to improve the understanding of the barriers, enablers and limits to effective, sustained and widespread climate […]
18/03/2018
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Vulnerability & adaptation to climate change in semi-arid Eastern Africa
The Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR) Consortium seeks to deepen understanding of climate vulnerability and adaptation in semi-arid areas, and to help embed adaptation practice in development activities. A central focus is on advancing adaptive livelihoods for vulnerable groups such as pastoralists. One of the research teams is studying dryland zones of Ethiopia, […]
18/03/2018
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Uganda’s rangeland policy
The paper “Uganda’s rangeland policy: intentions, consequences and opportunities” (2018) by Patrick Byakagaba et al, published in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice 8:7 (https://doi.org/10.1186/s13570-017-0111-3) analyses Uganda’s rangeland policies from pre-colonial times onwards. It looks into what informed these policies, their objectives and the outcomes realised. The policies were based on western European resource management, classical […]