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Community-based animal health workers in the Horn of Africa
Community-based animal health worker (CAHW) services evolved in eastern Africa in the late 1980s, especially in more remote pastoralist areas where conventional veterinary services were limited or absent. Although controversial, CAHWs became recognised as a critical approach for rinderpest eradication in conflict-affected areas such as South Sudan and the Afar region of Ethiopia. During the […]
Devolved adaptation funds in Kenya’s drylands
Kenya’s new Constitution (2010) grants county governments authority and responsibility fort he socio-economic development of their county according to local priorities. This provides an opportunity to test a model for devolved County Adaptation Funds (CAFs) to prepare county governments to access global climate finance for adaptation and climate-resilient development. With funding from the UK Department […]
Narratives to justify displacing farmers and herders
“’Unused land’ and unfulfilled promises: justifications for displacing communities in East Africa” is a paper that was presented at a 2012 conference at Cornell University on Global Land Grabbing. It examines the policy narratives used by commercial investors to justify large-scale land acquisition in Ethiopia and Kenya. The pattern of discourse is based on the […]
A critique of Ethiopia’s pastoralist policies
Ethiopia’s current economic plans call for extensive development along rivers in lowland areas typically occupied by pastoralists and agropastoralists. These plans include development of large dams for hydroelectric power and irrigating large agricultural estates producing sugar, cotton and rice in state-run and privately owned businesses. Nearly all these projects entail the resettlement of people away […]
Policy briefs on pastoralism for the G8 New Alliance agenda
The Future Agricultures Consortium (FAC), the National Drought Management Agency in Kenya and Tufts University have produced a series of policy briefs in early 2014 examining critical issues for the New Alliance to consider in pastoral areas. The New Alliance is a G8 initiative to harness private-sector investment in agriculture to strengthen food security and […]