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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 […]
07/01/2018
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Contribution of livestock to Ugandan economy
A briefing paper of the IGAD Center for Pastoralist Areas & Livestock Development assesses “The contribution of livestock to the Ugandan economy” (2013, 4pp). The study assigns monetary values to the non-marketed goods and services provided by livestock, and estimates the contribution of livestock to the wider national economy – as exports, as inputs into […]
07/01/2018
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Contribution of livestock to Kenyan economy
According to the IGAD Center for Pastoralist Areas & Livestock Development, the contribution of livestock production to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been greatly underestimated in Kenya. The policy brief “The contribution of livestock to the Kenyan economy” (2013, 4pp) estimates that livestock provide about 45% of output from the country’s agriculture and forestry […]
07/01/2018
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Ethnography of slaughterhouse in pastoral area of Kenya
The food-system approach is used as lens for examining the “Ethnography of the slaughterhouse: a case of Nanyuki slaughterhouse in Laikipia County, Rift Valley, Kenya” by Edwin Ambani Ameso et al, published in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice (2017, 7:32). This paper identifies actors and their roles in the slaughterhouse processes and describes the effects that institutional […]
30/12/2017
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Happy New Year
With this colourful picture from Dassanach girls dancing at the Kalacha Culture Festival in Kenya we wish you all the best for 2018!
28/12/2017
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Bush encroachment in Borana rangelands of southern Ethiopia
Analysing changes in land use gives insight into impacts on ecosystem functioning. The paper “Conversion of savanna rangelands to bush dominated landscape in Borana, southern Ethiopia” (2016) by Teshome Abate and Ayana Angassa, published in Ecological processes 5:6 (DOI 10.1186/s13717-016-0049-1), evaluates changes in land use and vegetation cover between 1987 and 2003 in the Yabelo […]