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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 […]
15/02/2011
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Cross-border livestock marketing
This HPG policy brief presents pastoralism as a cross-border activity that requires deeper understanding of the consequences of this mobility. Currently, governments are trying to solve the problems through unilateral action, whereas a more joined-up approach would promise more success. Regional bodies could play an important role in the coordination of cross-border pastoralism, especially to improve livestock marketing. […]
14/01/2011
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Pastoralist Field Schools: guidelines for facilitation
A Pastoralist Field School (PFS) can be described as a ‘school without walls’, where groups of pastoralists learn through observation and experimentation in their own context, based on methods of adult education. This allows them to improve their management skills and become knowledge experts on their own resource use practices. The approach empowers pastoralists using […]
21/09/2010
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Pastoralism, policies and practice in the Horn and East Africa
by Sar Shadrack Omondi & Michael Ochieng Odhiambo, RECONCILE This publication forms one of a series of six reports prepared under the ECHO-funded project on ‘Reducing the vulnerability of pastoral communities through policy and practice change in the Horn and East Africa’. The aim of the project is to raise awareness among planners and policymakers about […]
21/09/2010
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Pastoralism featured in Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)
by Marianna Wiben Jensen et al This issue of Indigenous Affairs focuses on the situation of the millions of indigenous peoples who are nomadic pastoralists. Nomadic pastoralists have unique cultures and make unique and productive use of harsh environments. Nomadic pastoralists the world over are, however, the subject of an unusually large number of myths […]
21/09/2010
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Why De Soto’s land-tenure ideas of formalized property rights fail to benefit Africa’s poor
by Marcel Rutten, African Studies Centre The World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development noted in 1989 that “land availability was not a major problem in the context of most African countries” (WCARRD 1998: 17). Since then, however, some of the continent’s most serious conflicts (e.g. in Rwanda and Ivory Coast) have been linked to problems related to land availability […]