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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 […]
29/09/2016
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Securing pastoralists’ land-tenure rights
As part of a project to promote sustainable pastoralism, supported by IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development), Véterinaires Sans Frontières (VSF) made a survey of enabling policies and pastoralist practices in several areas of the world, including the Horn of Africa. One output of this study is the article “Securing pastoralists’ land tenure rights” (2016, […]
29/09/2016
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Sugar manufacturing hunger among herders in Ethiopia
A report from the Oakland Institute Miracle or mirage? Manufacturing hunger and poverty in Ethiopia (2016, 28pp) reveals how large-scale commercial agricultural development schemes have perpetuated cycles of poverty and food insecurity and have marginalised pastoralists, agropastoralists and fishers. The Ethiopian Government aims to make the country one of the largest sugar producers in the world. […]
25/09/2016
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Land-use changes & invasive shrubs in Baringo, Kenya
In the drylands around Lake Baringo, Kenya, the recent bush encroachment by the invasive alien species Prosopis juliflora and the native Dodonaea viscosa has changed human–environment interactions. The article “Land-use changes and the invasion dynamics of shrubs in Baringo”, published in the Journal of Eastern African Studies 10 (1): 111–129 (2016), suggests what led to […]
25/09/2016
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Samburu perspectives on disaster, identity and landscape
The paper “Dust people: Samburu perspectives on disaster, identity and landscape” published in the Journal of Eastern African Studies 10 (1): 168–188 (2016) discusses the Samburu term ntoror, meaning a place that attracts division and fighting. This term brings together ideas about pastoralist landscapes that inherently attract conflict and place-based identities derived from environmental and […]
25/09/2016
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Nutritional impacts of violence in pastoralist groups in N Kenya
Ethnographers and epidemiological scientists studied the consequences of endemic violence among Pokot, Samburu and Turkana pastoralists in Northern Kenya. In the article “Comparative nutritional indicators as markers for resilience: the impacts of low-intensity violence among three pastoralist communities of northern Kenya” published in the Journal of Eastern African Studies 10 (1): 150–167 (2016), they examine […]