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Making Rangelands Secure Bulletin 1 (July 2012)
The first quarterly bulletin on “Making Rangelands Secure in East and Horn of Africa” (July 2012) has been issued by the International Land Coalition (ILC). It brings news on, among other things, the “learning route” from Nairobi to Arusha in February 2012, the National Workshop on Pastoral Development held in Ethiopia in March 2012 and […]
Linking relief, rehabilitation and development
The European Parliament’s Committee on Development will hold a public hearing on “Linking relief, rehabilitation and development: towards more effective aid” on Monday, 3 September 2012 at 15:00–17:30 h in the European Parliament in Brussels. The hearing, co-hosted by European Members of Parliament Ms Michèle Striffler and Mr Thijs Berman, will be attended by CELEP […]
Economic case for community-based adaptation in dryland Kenya
A study made by the new economics foundation (nef), on behalf of CARE, shows that community-based adaptation (CBA) makes strong economic sense. The various scenarios comparing systematic and planned adaptation to a situation with no support to adaptation are based on learning from the real situation of two communities in Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands […]
Who benefits from livestock exports from the Horn?
Aid donors have invested much in livestock marketing in pastoralist areas of the Horn of Africa for over 30 years. Most recently, this support has included attention to export of live animals and related certification, quarantine and other inputs. It has often been assumed that, in pastoralist areas, a linear and simple relationship exists between […]
Pastoral institutions for managing natural resources
Pastoralists have adapted to the uncertainty of their environment in many ways, but a key feature is their strong social organisation. They have developed complex customary institutions to enable flexibility and opportunism in managing and using natural resources, in order to allow mobility and to enable pastoralist societies to withstand extreme pressures. Their customary institutions […]