Pastoralism, Policy & Power (page 31)
Mobile herders and legislation in East & West Africa
As part of the IIED project Securing Pastoralism in East and West Africa: Protecting and Promoting Livestock Mobility, a desk review was made “Review of the legislative and institutional environment governing livestock mobility in East and West Africa” (2008, 58pp). This summarises the legislative and institutional environment governing livestock mobility in East and West Africa […]
CELEP-organised visit of MEPs to Uganda
CELEP organised a fact-finding mission of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) Norbert Neuser (Socialists & Democrats) and Maria Heubuch (Greens-European Free Alliance) to Uganda in late October 2015.
Importance of livestock routes in Ethiopia
In September 2015, an international meeting on the “Importance of livestock routes for local, national and regional development” was organised by the Rangeland Management Platform – a forum coordinated by the Pastoral Livestock Development Directorate in the Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture and the Ethiopian Society of Animal Production (ESAP). The participants concluded that livestock routes […]
Where have all the nomads gone?
Mobile African pastoralists are probably undercounted or excluded from many data sources because of the difficulties in enumerating them. In the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it is expected that everyone will be counted and their characteristics measured. It is therefore important to develop appropriate strategies for including mobile pastoralists. In the article “Where have all […]
Pastoralism pays: evidence from the Horn
In a Briefing from CELEP member IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development) entitled “Pastoralism pays: new evidence from the Horn of Africa” (2015), Caroline King-Okumu, Oliver Wasonga and Eshetu Yimer have summarised findings from field studies on pastoralism by university students. As competition for land and water resources intensifies, there is a need to […]