Pastoral Research & Innovation (page 5)
Women’s land rights in pastoral areas of Ethiopia
In Ethiopia, formal laws assert that women have equal rights regarding land use and access. However, the pastoral areas are often highly influenced by religious and customary systems under which women tend to have weaker land rights. The report “Women’s land rights: customary rules and formal laws in the pastoral areas of Ethiopia – complementary […]
IK in adaptive environmental management in Borana, Ethiopia
The proliferation of woody plant species has been observed on rangelands in the Horn of Africa. The paper “Indigenous ecological knowledge as the basis for adaptive environmental management: evidence from pastoralist communities in the Horn of Africa” (2016) by Chuan Liao et al looks into pastoralists’ adaptation to such environmental changes in the Borana Zone […]
Pastoralist innovation in the face of COVID-19
The article “COVID-19 and pastoralism: reflections from three continents” (2020, 25pp) by Giulia Simula et al from the PASTRES Programme of the Institute of Development Studies in the UK, was published in The Journal of Peasant Studies. Looking at five cases of pastoralism in Africa, Asia and Europe, it examines how measures to control the […]
Video on Participatory Rangeland Management
A number of external and internal forces are putting pressure on rangeland resources, often leading to overuse and degradation and conflicts between rangeland users, including pastoralists. Specific ways to deal with these challenges have been developed over the years, including improved rangeland management approaches. In Ethiopia, Participatory Rangeland Management (PRM) has been adopted as an […]
Accounting for pastoralists, also in Kenya & Uganda
Pastoralists are important for food production, ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation and maintaining landscapes. They practise a sustainable, low-carbon, animal-welfare-friendly way of livestock production. To put the livestock sector on a sustainable trajectory, it is necessary to support such systems in favour over other livestock-production systems that are less beneficial. As the UNEP gap analysis clearly […]