Pastoralism, Gender & Youth (page 7)
Women’s land rights in Uganda, including Karamoja
Oxfam commissioned a study on “Women’s land rights in northern Uganda (West Nile, Acholi, Lango, Teso and Karamoja)” (2014, 105pp) which was carried out by Christopher Burke & Doreen Nancy Kobusingye. They looked at how women in northern Uganda acquire, own, access, control and manage land, by interviewing about 1200 people, including pastoralist women in […]
IGAD study of complementary livelihoods for pastoralists
The IGAD Centre for Pastoral Areas and Livestock Development (ICPALD) assessment report “Stocktaking study of complementary livelihoods: market and value chain analysis for identified priority projects in IGAD region cross-border areas” (2017, 84pp) was produced by the Regional Pastoral Livelihoods Resilience Project (RPLRP) funded by the World Bank. The study was conducted in in Borana […]
Borana women’s network for local food security
Pastoralist societies are known for their strong social networks. The paper “Borana women’s indigenous social network marro in building household food security: case study from Ethiopia” by Abiyot Eliyas Anbach and Darley Jose Kjosavik, published in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice 2018 (8:29), explores the role of marro – a women’s network to access resources […]
Pastoral dairy development in Eastern Africa
CELEP members and partners contributed a poster, abstract and 4-page paper on “Pastoral dairy development for food security and food safety in Eastern Africa: challenges and potentials” to the Tropentag Conference on International Research on Food Security, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development held on 17–19 September 2018 in Ghent, Belgium. In order to inform […]
Gendered vulnerability to climate change in semi-arid areas
Recent research indicates that vulnerabilities to impacts of climate change are gendered, but policy approaches aimed at strengthening local communities’ adaptive capacity largely fail to recognise this. The paper “Gendered vulnerabilities to climate change: insights from the semi-arid regions of Africa and Asia” by Nitya Rao et al, published in Climate and Development (2017) interrogates […]