Pastoralism & Services (page 2)
Agropastoralists’ voices in Africa’s borderlands
The Africa Borderlands Centre of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) made a mixed-method (qualitative and quantitative) study “Promise, peril and resilience: voices of agropastoralists in Africa’s borderland regions” (2022, 152pp) among communities living in borderland regions in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, South Sudan and Uganda. In direct testimonies, community members describe […]
Review of 2022 humanitarian crisis in Karamoja
In 2022, Karamoja’s long-term food security and livelihood challenges evolved into a humanitarian crisis that led to a substantial loss of human life. The Karamoja Resilience Support Unit of the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University published a real-time review of the crisis carried out in September–October 2022. The report, “The 2022 humanitarian crisis in […]
Assessing policy frame in pastoral areas of sub-Saharan Africa
The policy paper “Assessing the policy frame in pastoral areas of sub-Saharan Africa” (2022, 39pp) by Michele Nori, is one in a series of the Robert Schuman Centre’s Global Governance Programme at the European University Institute looking at the framing of policy around pastoralism in different regions of the world. This one was funded through […]
Improving water investments in the Kenyan drylands
Despite major investments in water infrastructure in dryland areas, the functionality and sustainability of these investments remains a major challenge. The reasons for this were explored in the study “Improving the functionality of water investments in the drylands: learning from Kenya’s County Climate Change Fund” (2022, 80pp) by Claire Bedelian et al, published by the […]
Girls’ education in pastoral areas of East Africa
In pastoral areas worldwide, school enrolment, retention and achievements fall below national averages – and especial among pastoralist girls. Across East Africa, the Covid pandemic, ongoing conflicts and recurrent droughts are increasing poverty in ways that undermine any progress that may have been made in reshaping gender norms to favour girls’ inclusion in formal education. […]