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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 […]
03/09/2017
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Enhancing climate-change adaptation in Karamoja, Uganda
Climate change will have significant impacts on economic activity in Uganda but can also provide new possibilities for people and businesses, e.g. to create new products and services, develop new markets and access new funding streams and finance mechanisms. The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) Working Paper 513 “Enhancing climate change development programmes in Uganda: Karamoja […]
03/09/2017
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Sociocultural impacts of Prosopis on Afar pastoralists in Ethiopia
In the article “Reimagining invasions: the social and cultural impacts of Prosopis on pastoralists in southern Afar, Ethiopia”, published in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice (2017, 7:22), Paul Rogers, Fiona Nunan and Abiy Addisu Fentie look at the sociocultural dimensions of the invasive plant species Prosopis julifloras. They present the perceptions of Afar pastoralists and […]
31/08/2017
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Pastoralism, policy & food sovereignty in Eastern Africa
The report “Pastoralism, policy and law in the EAC and IGAD Regions” (2017, 16pp) is a summary of a study commissioned by the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) on pastoralism-related policy in regions of the East African Community (EAC) and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD). The aim of the desk review was […]
24/08/2017
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Adaptation to climate change in Borana, Ethiopia
The article “Adaptation of agriculture to climate change in semi-arid Borena, Ethiopia”, published in 2016 in Regional Environmental Change 16 (8): 2317–2330, reports on findings from the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). Livestock production is very risky due to climate variability in semi-arid Ethiopia. Using data collected from 400 […]
19/08/2017
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Changes in livelihoods of evicted agropastoralists in Tanzania
The article “Changes in livelihoods of evicted agro-pastoralists from Ihefu Basin in Tanzania” by GB Msigwa and ZK Mvena, published in Livestock Research for Rural Development 26 (1) 2014, looks at the extent of livelihood change and impoverishment among agropastoralists who were evicted from Ihefu Basin in Mbarali District of Tanzania and forced to settle […]