Articles
Articles (page 91)
01/06/2021
By:
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 […]
13/11/2017
By:
CELEP 2017 annual meeting in Brussels, Belgium
12/11/2017
By:
ECHO: Good practices in supporting pastoralists
In its Best Practices Note No. 3 entitled “Assisting Pastoralists” (2013, 11pp), the US American charity organisation ECHO describes how it works with pastoralists. The Director of ECHO’s East Africa Impact Center, Erwin Kinsey, wrote the note based mainly on his experience in rural development in Tanzania. He describes what pastoralism is and the socio-political-cultural, […]
11/11/2017
By:
How do pastoralists participate in project planning and M&E?
Starting in the mid-1990s, the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ, now called GIZ, with “I” standing for “International”) developed guidelines and shared experiences in participatory approaches to interacting with pastoralists in development projects, for example, in the two publications: Planning with pastoralists: PRA and more (1994, 99pp) Participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) with pastoralists […]
11/11/2017
By:
Testing pastoralist community consent: oil in Turkana
Oil discoveries in the South Lokichar Basin in Turkana County have brought Kenya into the global spotlight of emerging oil producers. At the same time, questions remain about the impact these discoveries will have on the future of the pastoralist communities who live there. The Oxfam Briefing Paper “Testing community consent: Tullow Oil project in […]
05/11/2017
By:
A critical review of Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI)
First in Mongolia in Central Asia and now in Kenya and Ethiopia in Eastern Africa, pilots are being carried out with Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI). A critical review of the experiences can be found in the report “The feasibility of Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) in the West African Sahel: framing the issue” (2016, 52pp) by […]