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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 […]
11/08/2013
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Resolving conflicts and building peace in the Horn of Africa
The 17-page technical brief “Conflict resolution and peace building in the drylands in the Greater Horn of Africa” prepared by the Technical Consortium for Building Resilience to Drought in the Horn of Africa (CGIAR Consortium / FAO Investment Centre) focuses on pastoralist communities in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, the Sudans and Uganda. The analysis looks […]
11/08/2013
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Managing disaster risk reduction in the Horn of Africa
Countries in the Horn of Africa are highly prone to natural disasters, especially drought, with extreme economic, social and environmental impacts on the local people, many of whom are pastoralists and agropastoralists. Drought is a chronic and regular feature of the lowlands of the Horn of Africa but increasingly leads to disaster because of a […]
11/08/2013
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Community adaptation funds in the Kenyan drylands
Effective governance of natural resources is crucial for adaptive capacity and climate-resilient growth. Climate change will hit dryland communities early and severely because it exacerbates existing structural causes of poverty and inequality. Poor governance and exclusion of local voices (particularly from planning and managing of use of natural resources) has eroded pastoralist communities’ distinctive capacity […]
11/08/2013
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Challenge of institutional reform in Kenya’s pastoral areas
Kenya cannot achieve its development targets unless there are appropriate investments in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs). Covering two-thirds of the country, the ASALs can make a significant contribution to national development. Failure to integrate them into the national economy is perhaps the main reason for the failure of national development since independence. Investing […]
11/08/2013
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