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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 […]
05/11/2017
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Governance of rangelands – with case from northern Kenya
The 2017 review by Claire Bedelian of the book The governance of rangelands: collective action for sustainable pastoralism (2014, 300pp, edited by Pedro Herrera, Jonathan Davies & Pablo Manzano) includes an abstract of a chapter by Guyo Roba on “Strengthening communal governance of rangelands in Northern Kenya”: “In Chapter 11, Roba gives an example of […]
04/11/2017
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Addressing insecurity in pastoralist areas of Somalia and Mali
The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies has issued a policy brief “Cooling up the drylands: disentangling the pastoralist security nexus” (2017, 8pp) by Edoardo Baldaro and Michele Nori, which explores the dynamics, trends and challenges in some pastoral areas in Africa. Cases from northeast Somalia and north Mali provide insights into how geopolitical, economic […]
25/10/2017
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Pastoralism and its future
As part of a project exploring the impact of climate change on food security and livelihoods of small-scale family farmers in Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Zimbabwe, IRIN published a “factfile” entitled “Pastoralism and its future” (October 2017). In the drylands, the extreme variations in weather mean that pastoralists have to be highly adaptive and deploy […]
24/10/2017
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Borana women’s perception of role change in livestock care
In the Borana pastoral system, all family members are engaged in livestock management but, in recent times, external changes at various levels have affected the labour requirements and division of labour. In the study “Caring for livestock: Borana women’s perceptions of their changing role in livestock management in southern Ethiopia” (2015), Marie-Luise Hertkorn et al […]
20/10/2017
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Climate information for the poor in Kenya’s drylands
Climate variability and change affect millions of poor people in Kenya, especially in the drylands. Investments are being made in developing Climate Information Services (CIS) tailored to the needs of pastoralists and agropastoralists, to help them adapt to the impact of climate change. The Institute for Development Studies (IDS) Policy Briefing 145 “Improving the impact […]