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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 […]
16/02/2024
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Managing variability, governing security – policies affecting pastoralists
A policy brief from the PASTRES (Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Resilience) project, “Managing variability, governing security: how do policies affect livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa drylands?” (2022, 8pp) by Michele Nori, examines the changing policy landscape for pastoralists in sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on the Sahel and the Horn of Africa. In addition to all the uncertainties that […]
15/02/2024
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Pastoralists’ approaches to peacebuilding in Ethiopia–Kenya borderlands
The Future Agricultures Working Paper 22 “The long conversation: customary approaches to peace management in southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya” (2011, 24pp) by Patta Scott-Villiers et al seeks to contribute to a better understanding of peacebuilding among pastoralists. From a pastoralist perspective, it throws light on the achievement of peace in a five-year effort led […]
08/02/2024
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Maasai in Tanzania displaced for nature conservation
In December 2023 – the same month as Maasai lawyer Joseph Oleshangay received the Human Rights Prize from the City of Weimar, Germany (see news item) – the Germany-based Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker (Society for Threatened Peoples) issued a 50-page report in German on “Die Maasai in Tansania: gewaltsam vertrieben für den Naturschutz” (The Maasai […]
02/02/2024
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Contextualised education for Somali pastoralist children
In two e-articles in the UKFIET Education and Development Forum, Abdirazak Haybe, an education specialist based in Somali Region of Ethiopia, highlights the importance of pastoralist education for inclusive development of mobile and marginalised communities living in remote areas. He outlines the barriers faced by children in Somali pastoralist communities and calls for contextualised and […]
26/01/2024
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Economic contribution of pastoral meat trade in northern Kenya
The study “Economic contribution of the pastoral meat trade in Isiolo Town, Kenya” (2015, 32pp) by BC Gituku and colleagues uses a total economic valuation approach to characterise the economic contribution of pastoral meat production to the economy of Isiolo Town. It is based on semi-structured and key-informant interviews with livestock traders, brokers, butchers, transporters, […]