Pastoralism, Policy & Power (page 39)
Learning from Kenya & Tanzania for dryland management in Sudan
UNEP (United National Environment Programme) is working on land issues in Sudan to help the people and government of Darfur rebuild the social contract on natural resources and land. The report Natural resource management & land tenure in the rangelands: lessons learned from Kenya and Tanzania, with implications for Darfur (2014, 35pp) shows that exposing key […]
Pastoralist Knowledge Conference in Marsabit
Men and women pastoralists from different ethnic groups around Marsabit in northern Kenya came together with development workers from local and international NGOs, donors, scientists and government officials for a 4-day conference in January 2013 on pastoralist knowledge. They explored the challenges and opportunities facing pastoralists in the region, tackling topics such as conflict resolution, […]
CELEP core-group meeting April 2014
On 22–24 April, the CELEP core group of eight people from Europe and Eastern Africa met in Brussels to work further on issues defined in the action plan formulated during the annual meeting in Rome six months before. The group mapped the outreach of the CELEP network and decided to produce an updated CELEP who’s-who […]
Economics of resilience in northern Kenya
The 53-page Kenya country report on the “Economics of resilience” (2012) focuses on interventions in arid and semiarid areas in northern Kenya where pastoralism and agropastoralism are practised. It compares costs of key interventions in response to drought – humanitarian response, early response and building resilience – and calculates the value for money of different […]
CELEP meeting on pastoralism for European Parliament delegation in Sudan
On 25–27 March 2014, a delegation of the European Parliament visited Khartoum. Three Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) who are in the Development Committee – Ricardo Cortés-Lastra (Spain), Filip Kaczmarek (Poland) and Fiona Hall (UK) – exchanged views with their Sudanese counterparts and government officials. In the past year, CELEP had worked intensively with […]