Pastoralism & Services (page 1)
Contextualised education for Somali pastoralist children
In two e-articles in the UKFIET Education and Development Forum, Abdirazak Haybe, an education specialist based in Somali Region of Ethiopia, highlights the importance of pastoralist education for inclusive development of mobile and marginalised communities living in remote areas. He outlines the barriers faced by children in Somali pastoralist communities and calls for contextualised and […]
Mobile health service for Afar & Somali pastoralists in Ethiopia
The Mobile Health Service (MHS) has been piloted as a strategy to make human healthcare more easily accessible to mobile pastoralists in Ethiopia. The study “Mobile health service as an alternative modality for hard‑to‑reach pastoralist communities of Afar and Somali regions in Ethiopia” (2023) by Kasahun Eba et al., published in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and […]
Participatory ward development planning in dryland Kenya
In the past, pastoralists’ limited participation in government planning processes led to misguided development interventions that undermined livelihoods and increase vulnerability. The brief “Participatory planning in Kenya’ drylands: the Ward Development Planning model” (2023, 12pp) by Claire Bedelian et al of the Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC) programme, describes a bottom-up […]
One Health in Turkana, Kenya
In the CABI series of One Health cases, Evan Griffith and colleagues in the Turkana County Government Directorate of Veterinary Services have published the case of “One Health in Turkana, Kenya: applications and lessons learned” (2023, 15pp). The marginalisation of pastoralist communities in northern Kenya, including the lack of basic infrastructure and services, compounded by […]
Stealthy processes of land dispossession in Ngorongoro, Tanzania
In the paper “Making land grabbable: stealthy dispossessions by conservation in Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania” (published in 2021 in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 5 (4): https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211052860), Teklehaymanot Weldemichael looks into how it becomes possible that land is grabbed and people are relocated. It focuses on the historical conditions of land tenure that […]