Pastoralism, Policy & Power (page 20)
CELEP at Tropentag 2018 in Ghent, Belgium
The Tropentag is an annual development-oriented and interdisciplinary conference on research in tropical and subtropical agriculture, natural resource management and rural development. The theme of the Tropentag this year, hosted by the University of Ghent in Belgium on 16–19 September 2018, was Global food security and food safety: the role of universities. CELEP co-organised a […]
CELEP background reader on pastoralism
CELEP partners compiled some key information about pastoralism – above all in Eastern Africa – as background information to use in policy dialogue, especially in Europe. The “background reader on pastoralism” (2015, 10pp) brings facts and figures about the significant contribution of pastoralism to economic growth, highlights some key challenges and opportunities for pastoralists, informs […]
Critical review of agricultural growth corridors in eastern Africa
“Agricultural growth corridors on the eastern seaboard of Africa: an overview” (2017, 40pp) by Rebecca Smalley is the first Working Paper of the Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) programme of the Future Agricultures Consortium. It reviews the recent emergence of agricultural growth corridors and other types of corridor with a prominent agricultural component, focused […]
PASTRES seeks global lessons from pastoralist responses to uncertainty
PASTRES (Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Resilience: Global Lessons from the Margins) is a 5-year research project (2018–23) funded through an ERC (European Research Council) Advanced Grant. It is hosted by the STEPS Centre at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, UK, and the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Drawing insights from across […]
Trends in collective land ownership, including pastoral
Rural communities are increasingly being recognised by statutory law as collective owners of their lands. The article “Collective land ownership in the 21st century: overview of global trends” (2018, 26pp) by Liz Alden Wily, published in the journal Land 7 (2), 68 (https://doi.org/10.3390/land7020068) examines the status of collective land tenure for communities around the world, […]