Pastoralism, Policy & Power (page 40)
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 […]
High-Level Forum on Pastoralism in the Sahel
The N’Djamena Declaration adopted in May 2013 integrated the existing pastoral policy frameworks in Africa and set the priorities for a regional policy in the Sahel and West Africa in support of pastoralism. Building on the current National Agricultural Investment Plans, the Regional Agricultural Investment Programme, PRIA and the Country Resilience Priorities of the Global […]
EU approach to resilience in Africa
In response to the massive food crises in Africa, the European Commission (EC) took two initiatives: Supporting Horn of African Resilience (SHARE) and l’Alliance Globale pour l’Initiative Résilience Sahel (AGIR). These set out a new approach to building up the resilience of vulnerable populations, especially those dependent on crop farming and pastoralism. The purpose of […]