Pastoralism, Policy & Power (page 30)
Visit of Members of European Parliament to Kenya
CELEP was involved in organising a mission of four members of the European Parliament to Kenya on 9–11 February 2016. This was an official mission of the Development Committee (DEVE), which put the focus on Water, Food Security, Education, Governance, Peace and Conflict resolution. The members of the delegation were: Linda McAvan, DEVE Chair; Enrico […]
Three handbooks on participatory rangeland management
Garba Tula District in Isiolo County, northern Kenya, is home to about 40,000 pastoralists, mainly Borana. Most of the land is held in trust by the country councils, who strictly control allocation. Decisions on land use and management were taken out of the hands of the communities’ traditional authorities. The dryland programme of the IUCN […]
Harnessing pastoral knowledge for climate-change adaptation
The paper “Harnessing pastoral knowledge for climate change adaptation in the drylands” presents experience from northern Tanzania and Kenya using a mapping system based on Geographic Information System (GIS) that enables pastoralist communities to demonstrate, in a ‘language’ understood by policymakers and planners, the logic behind the communities’ livelihood strategies. The paper (37pp) was presented […]
Review of FAO’s & IFAD’s engagement in pastoral development
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) mandated a joint evaluation of their projects related to pastoral development. The report FAO’s and IFAD’s engagement in pastoral development: joint evaluation synthesis (2016, 115pp) reviews 194 projects somehow related to pastoralism that were formulated in 2003–13 […]
Impacts of index-based livestock insurance in Ethiopia & Kenya
Development institutions have invested millions in developing and piloting index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) because they see large potential benefits for reducing risk for rural households in developing countries, especially in arid and semiarid areas. An IBLI scheme was launched in Eastern Africa in 2010. The Index Insurance Innovation Initiative (University of California Davis) seeks to […]