Pastoralism, Policy & Power (page 28)
The path to greener pastures
CELEP partner Vétérinaires Sans Frontières International has brought out a technical brief The path to greener pastures: pastoralism – the backbone of the world’s drylands (2016, 20pp) that looks at the factors impeding development in pastoralist regions and suggests ways to improve pastoralist livelihoods. It is organised around the “community capitals” framework, which combines two […]
CELEP Update June 2016
The CELEP Update for June 2016 reports on past, ongoing and planned activities of the CELEP Focal Point at VSF-Belgium. It brings information about the pilot project being developed with the International Land Coalition on participatory rangeland management, the travel of journalists to Tanzania to investigate impacts of investments of the New Alliance, the resolution […]
Securing pastoralists’ land-tenure rights
As part of a project to promote sustainable pastoralism, supported by IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development), Véterinaires Sans Frontières (VSF) made a survey of enabling policies and pastoralist practices in several areas of the world, including the Horn of Africa. One output of this study is the article “Securing pastoralists’ land tenure rights” (2016, […]
Improving governance of pastoral lands
In 2012, the Committee on World Food Security endorsed the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT). FAO, in collaboration with IUCN, issued a technical guide Improving governance of pastoral lands (2016, 140pp) to provide advice and examples of how to […]
Evaluating policy effects on pastoral development in Ethiopia
The article “Unsustain the sustainable: an evaluation of the legal and policy interventions for pastoral development in Ethiopia” published in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice (2016 6:2 DOI: 10.1186/s13570-016-0049-x) is a critical appraisal of interventions under the Imperial, Derg and Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) governments. Based on an extensive review of pastoral policies, […]