Pastoralism & Climate Change (page 21)
Inclusive green growth in the Kenyan drylands
Green growth promises to provide the economic incentives that resource-dependent dryland communities need to achieve sustainable inclusive economic development. Kenya’s current devolution process provides an opportunity for green economic planning in the arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) to be informed by local people’s perspectives on needs, priorities, resource conditions and trends, but aligning the necessary […]
Pastoral land rights, livelihoods & climate change
The International Land Coalition (ILC) and the World Initiative for Sustainable Pastoralism (WISP) brought together inputs from participants in a web-based forum on pastoral land rights and a web-based forum organised by WISP on pastoralism and climate change adaptation, and enriched these insights further on the basis of documentation from several projects. This was published […]
Animal health education for pastoralists in Tanzania
Through focus group discussions and interviews with pastoralists, extension officers and government veterinarians in south-central Tanzania, livestock disease priorities, access to livestock health services and ways of improving livestock health were studied. The findings were published in the paper “Educating pastoralists and extension officers on diverse livestock diseases in a changing environment in Tanzania” in Pastoralism […]
Measuring vulnerability of pastoral households in Kenya
Statistical and econometric tools were used to measure households’ vulnerability in pastoral rangelands in the Turkana area of Kenya. In-depth interviews in over 300 households considered 27 socio-economic and biophysical indicators of climate vulnerability and adaptive capacity. The results, published in the article “Measuring household vulnerability to climate-induced stresses in pastoral rangelands of Kenya: implications […]
Valuing variability for climate-resilient dryland development
IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development) has published a book on climate change and resilience in the drylands of Kenya, India and China. The 90-page publication Valuing variability: new perspectives on climate resilient drylands development (2015) was the result of a partnership with the Rainfed Livestock Network and Revitalizing Rainfed Agriculture Network in India, Peking University in […]