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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 […]
25/09/2016
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Improving governance of pastoral lands
In 2012, the Committee on World Food Security endorsed the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT). FAO, in collaboration with IUCN, issued a technical guide Improving governance of pastoral lands (2016, 140pp) to provide advice and examples of how to […]
24/09/2016
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Industrial meat production vs pastoralism
In a policy brief issued by the Centre for Environment and Development (CDE) of Bern University – Sustainable livestock production? Industrial agriculture versus pastoralism (2015, 6pp) – industrialised meat production is compared with mobile pastoralism. The former is described as wasteful and energy-intensive; it claims excessive shares of land and crops that could be eaten […]
24/09/2016
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Pastoralist conflict on Kenya-Sudan-Uganda border
In the border region of Kenya, Sudan and Uganda, pastoralists migrate in search of water and pasture. With limited access to water and competing rights to land, inter-tribal conflict arises when pastoralists from one tribe enter the territory of another. The increased availability of small arms in the region from past wars increasingly makes ordinary […]
18/09/2016
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Livelihood dynamics in northern Karamoja
The report “Livelihood dynamics in northern Karamoja: a participatory baseline study for the Growth, Health and Governance Program” (2013, 70pp) published by Feinstein International Center of Tufts University bring the findings of a livelihoods assessment made as part of the USAID-funded Growth, Health and Governance Program implemented by Mercy Corps and partners in Karamoja in […]
18/09/2016
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Evaluating policy effects on pastoral development in Ethiopia
The article “Unsustain the sustainable: an evaluation of the legal and policy interventions for pastoral development in Ethiopia” published in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice (2016 6:2 DOI: 10.1186/s13570-016-0049-x) is a critical appraisal of interventions under the Imperial, Derg and Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) governments. Based on an extensive review of pastoral policies, […]