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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 […]
18/03/2018
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Ungoverned markets for camel milk in stateless Somali areas
The “Milking Drylands” (EC Marie Curie research) initiative addressed issues of food security, market integration, gender roles and governance matters in the Somali ecosystem. The paper “Ungoverned markets: the emergence of camel milk markets in stateless Somali areas” (undated but probably 2003 or 2003, 15pp) by Michelle Nori et al looks into mechanisms for marketing […]
18/03/2018
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Hidden value on the hoof: cross-border trade in Eastern Africa
Cross-border livestock trade has grown from a fairly minor informal activity to a dynamic enterprise that contributes to local and regional food security, meat consumption in large urban centres and poverty alleviation among pastoralists, among others. Despite its importance, the trade is often poorly understood by policymakers and suffers from ambiguous policies and administrative actions, […]
18/03/2018
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Livestock trade in the Horn of Africa
The report “Livestock trade in the Horn of Africa” (2010, 10pp) is a summary of the presentations and discussion held at Chatham House, UK, on 19 October 2010 during a workshop on two papers by Hussein Mahmoud and Nisar Majid on “Livestock trade in the Kenyan, Somali and Ethiopian borderlands” and “Livestock trade in the […]
18/03/2018
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Safe movement for adaptation by pastoralists in the Horn
In the brochure “Advocating for safe movement as a climate change adaptation strategy for pastoralists in the Horn and East Africa: highlights and key messages” (2010, 22pp), the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), International Organization for Migration (IOM), UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) advocate for […]
18/03/2018
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Implementing social protection in pastoralist areas in Ethiopia
Widespread poverty and vulnerability in pastoralist areas highlight the need to extend the provision of social protection to these populations. In the paper “Implementing social protection in pastoralist areas: low local distribution structures moderate PSNP outcomes in Ethiopia” (2011, 56pp), Rachel Sabates-Wheeler et al show that a programme design predicated on experiences in agrarian areas […]