Pastoral Research & Innovation (page 1)
Building on customary institutions in rangeland governance in Kenya
The policy brief “Building on Customary Institutions for Effective Rangeland Governance in Northern Kenya” (2026, 4pp), written by Malit Wako and her colleagues from the German Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture (DITSL) and the Kenyan Centre for Research & Development in Drylands, offers insights and recommendations from the transdisciplinary InfoRange project ‘Increasing Efficiency in […]
Building on the knowledge & initiatives of pastoralist women
The Working Group on Pastoralism & Gender in the Global Alliance for the International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists (IYRP) has published a summary policy brief “Building on the knowledge and initiatives of pastoralist women“. The longer (6-page) policy brief, with the same title, on which the summary was based, includes several examples of pastoralist […]
How pastoralist youth learn for improved livelihoods in Ethiopia
A paper prepared by Kaleb Kelemu and colleagues for the 13th International Conference on Education and Development “Learning for sustainable futures: making the connections” focused on “Understanding how rural youth learn knowledge and skills for improved livelihoods: comparing case studies of mixed farming and pastoralist communities in Ethiopia” (14pp). It went beyond the usual focus […]
Kenyan pastoralists’ high-reliability networks critical for resilience
As part of an action-research project ‘Resilience from Below’ funded by the Australian Centre for International and Agricultural Research and the Tufts University Feinstein International Center’s research on early warning and humanitarian response, the Centre for Research and Development in the Drylands (CRDD) is looking into how pastoralist communities in Kenya organise themselves in daily […]
With camelids into a sustainable future
For the International Year of Camelids 2024, Misereor, DITSL (German Institute for Tropical & Subtropical Agriculture) and LPP (League for Pastoral Peoples) in Germany have brought out a dossier on pastoral camelid husbandry around the world: “With camelids into a sustainable future: learning from pastoralist communities” (2024, 20pp), published by welt-sichten, Frankfurt. It describes the […]