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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 […]
12/07/2014
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Evolving customary institutions in Kenya’s drylands
Improved governance of natural resources is crucial for building climate-resilient livelihoods and economies in Africa’s drylands. The paper “Evolving customary institutions in the drylands: an opportunity for devolved natural resource management in Kenya?” (2014, 34pp) examines why the authority and capacity of customary NRM institutions have been weakened, and how this impacts on resource governance […]
08/06/2014
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New World Bank project for pastoralism in the Horn
08/06/2014
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Narratives to justify displacing farmers and herders
“’Unused land’ and unfulfilled promises: justifications for displacing communities in East Africa” is a paper that was presented at a 2012 conference at Cornell University on Global Land Grabbing. It examines the policy narratives used by commercial investors to justify large-scale land acquisition in Ethiopia and Kenya. The pattern of discourse is based on the […]
08/06/2014
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A critique of Ethiopia’s pastoralist policies
Ethiopia’s current economic plans call for extensive development along rivers in lowland areas typically occupied by pastoralists and agropastoralists. These plans include development of large dams for hydroelectric power and irrigating large agricultural estates producing sugar, cotton and rice in state-run and privately owned businesses. Nearly all these projects entail the resettlement of people away […]
08/06/2014
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Policy briefs on pastoralism for the G8 New Alliance agenda
The Future Agricultures Consortium (FAC), the National Drought Management Agency in Kenya and Tufts University have produced a series of policy briefs in early 2014 examining critical issues for the New Alliance to consider in pastoral areas. The New Alliance is a G8 initiative to harness private-sector investment in agriculture to strengthen food security and […]