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Diverse livelihood pathways in the Horn of Africa
A fundamental shift in thinking is needed about pastoralist livelihoods – recognising innovation and entrepreneurism, not just coping and migration, and cooperation and networking across borders, not just conflict and violence. The Future Agricultures Consortium at the University of Sussex, UK, has brought out a CAADP Policy Brief Pastoralism in the Horn of Africa: diverse livelihood […]
Pastoral land tenure options – implications for Ethiopia
The briefing paper “Land tenure options: Lessons learned and implications for Ethiopia” describes what was learnt during two recent experience-sharing events: i) a visit to Niger and Mali organised by Oxfam GB and USAID for government and NGO representatives from Ethiopia, Uganda and Somaliland; and ii) the “Making Rangelands Secure” learning route. A second briefing […]
Good practices in disaster risk reduction in the Horn
REGLAP (Regional Learning and Advocacy Programme for Vulnerable Dryland Communities) has issued a second collection of good-practice examples in drought cycle management in the Horn of Africa. Disaster Risk Reduction in the Drylands of the Horn of Africa – Edition 2 – contains 52 pages on experiences in responding to drought, building resilient livelihoods and working […]
Forced displacement of pastoralists in Gambella
According to Human Rights Watch, the Ethiopian Government under its “villagization” programme is forcibly relocating about 70,000 people – many of them pastoralists and agropastoralists – from the western Gambella Region to new villages. The report Waiting for death: forced displacement and ‘villagization’ in Ethiopia’s Gambella Region examines the first year of Gambella’s villagization program. It […]
Land grab to develop pastoral areas in Ethiopia?
Two articles on large-scale land investment in Ethiopia – including the pastoral lowlands – have been published in the first 2012 issues of the Journal of Peasant Studies and are available free online, as part of the journal’s contribution to ongoing policy debates around the UN Committee on Food Security Voluntary Guidelines on land. The […]