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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 […]
14/08/2015
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Livelihood diversification among the Turkana in Kenya
This research report Livelihood diversification opportunities for pastoralists in Turkana, Kenya (2008, 37pp) from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) looks at why and how Turkana pastoralists in northern Kenya have diversified their sources of livelihood by necessity (destitution, dropouts) or choice. In addition to the long-standing tradition of artisanal fishing, the Turkana are also involved […]
14/08/2015
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Alternative livelihoods in northern Kenya: effects on health & nutrition
With increasing destitution and political instability, former pastoralists have settled in rural, urban and peri-urban settings to seek alternative livelihoods based on various strategies, including selling livestock and their products, cropping, wage labour, entrepreneurial activities and transportation. Women play a key role in petty trade. The paper Seeking alternative livelihoods in northern Kenya: costs and […]
13/08/2015
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Issa pastoralists in Ethiopia: changing livelihoods & conflict
A rapid analysis of Issa pastoralist livelihoods and conflict in the Somali region on Ethiopia was commissioned by Mercy Corps and carried out by the Feinstein International Center of Tufts University. The 96-page report Moving up or moving out? A rapid livelihoods and conflict analysis in Mieso-Mulu Woreda, Shinile Zone, Somali Region, Ethiopia (2010) recommends policy […]
13/08/2015
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Understanding livelihoods to reduce pastoralist vulnerability
The 4-page synthesis of a study on pastoralist vulnerability in the Horn of Africa, Getting it right: understanding livelihoods to reduce the vulnerability of pastoral communities (2009), was brought out by the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and REGLAP. It calls for a better understanding of the diversity of pastoral […]
02/08/2015
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Food safety & informal markets for animal products
Animal products are vital components in the diets and livelihoods of people across sub-Saharan Africa and especially for pastoralists. The book Food safety and informal markets: animal products in sub-Saharan Africa (2014, 260pp) edited by Kristina Roesel and Delia Grace explores issues of food safety, zoonoses and public health involved in the informal marketing of […]