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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 […]
20/11/2015
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How Somali communities & families dealt with the 2011 famine
In 2011–12, Somalia experienced the worst famine of the 21st century. Research on the famine has focused mainly on the external response, the reasons for the delay in an international response and implications for international humanitarian action in the context of the “global war on terror.” The paper “Facing famine: Somali experiences in the famine […]
20/11/2015
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Making Rangelands Secure Bulletin 6 (Aug 2015)
20/11/2015
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Pastoral raiding and violent conflict in NW Kenya
Various pastoral communities in the Horn of Africa have traditionally used raiding as a way of restocking herds, especially after droughts or disease outbreaks. In recent years, however, livestock raiding has become more frequent, violent and destructive. In the paper “Raiding pastoral livelihoods: motives and effects of violent conflict in north-western Kenya” (Pastoralism: Research, Policy […]
20/11/2015
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Where have all the nomads gone?
Mobile African pastoralists are probably undercounted or excluded from many data sources because of the difficulties in enumerating them. In the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it is expected that everyone will be counted and their characteristics measured. It is therefore important to develop appropriate strategies for including mobile pastoralists. In the article “Where have all […]
20/11/2015
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Changing gender roles in diversified agropastoralism in West Pokot, Kenya
Earlier studies in drylands have shown that, while gender roles are becoming more flexible, privatisation and formalisation of land tenure tends to marginalise women, while environmental degradation leads to gender-differentiated changes in workload. Chepareria, a ward in West Pokot County, has undergone such tenure and environmental changes and is now dominated by private rangeland enclosures. […]