Pastoralism, Gender & Youth (page 15)
Award-winning article on pastoral women in Kenya & Ethiopia
The PARIMA (Pastoral Risk Management) project in Ethiopia and Kenya found that sustainable ways to improve lives in pastoral regions in eastern Africa have more to do with raising hope and building local people’s capacity to solve problems and manage risks rather than pushing new technology or range-management innovations. Investments in building the capacities of […]
Addressing fragility in Africa
The High-Level Panel on Fragile States in Africa was set up by the African Development Bank to review the likely sources of fragility in Africa in the coming years and to recommend how to handle them. The report (Feb 2014) “Ending Conflict and Building Peace in Africa: A Call to Action” points to several issues […]
Changes in the arid lands in Kenya, Ethiopia & Somaliland
The Red Cross, Save the Children and Oxfam commissioned a study into how changes are affecting pastoralists’ lives in Somali Region of Ethiopia, Somaliland and the Turkana area of Kenya and what their hopes and expectations are in the coming ten years. All pastoralist groups were agreed that formal education is the primary means by […]
Women’s land rights on communal rangeland
The actual gender relations within rural communities and the strategies being pursued in communal land processes are obscured and often ignored in policies about communal rangelands, which over-stress the ecological and economic impact and the balancing of these dimensions. As active and primary users, women play a central role in livelihoods supported by communal rangelands. […]
Making Rangelands Secure Bulletin 3 (June 2013)
The third issue of “Making Rangelands Secure: news, views and experiences of policymakers, practitioners and communities on making rangelands secure for local users”, reports on the March 2013 symposium in London, UK, on conservation and land grabbing; protecting livestock corridors in Tanzania; Maasai women’s fight for land rights in Loliondo, Tanzania; participatory rangeland management in […]