Pastoralism & Climate Change (page 24)
Assessing participatory initiatives with pastoral communities in Ethiopia
The IIED Climate Change Working Paper 6 “The role of community-based natural resource management in climate change adaptation in Ethiopia“ assesses the role of participatory community-based natural resource management initiatives taken by Save the Children (SC) with pastoral communities in the lowlands of Borana and Guji zones in Ethiopia in contributing to climate change adaptation. […]
Evidence on reducing disaster risk and adapting to climate change
The research report “Livelihoods at the limit: reducing the risk of disasters and adapting to climate change”, a collaboration between Save the Children and the Food Economy Group, has drawn evidence from the Household Economy Analysis database (www.heawebsite.org) to respond to four questions relevant to disaster risk reduction: Which single shock has the most damaging […]
NRM in the drylands in the Horn of Africa
The natural resources in lowlands in the Horn of Africa are used mainly by pastoralists and agropastoralists trying to cope with low and unreliable rainfall, low soil fertility and recurring drought. It is important to ensure that policies and institutions are in place to improve resilience and productivity, in order to reduce recurring drought and […]
Managing disaster risk reduction in the Horn of Africa
Countries in the Horn of Africa are highly prone to natural disasters, especially drought, with extreme economic, social and environmental impacts on the local people, many of whom are pastoralists and agropastoralists. Drought is a chronic and regular feature of the lowlands of the Horn of Africa but increasingly leads to disaster because of a […]
Community adaptation funds in the Kenyan drylands
Effective governance of natural resources is crucial for adaptive capacity and climate-resilient growth. Climate change will hit dryland communities early and severely because it exacerbates existing structural causes of poverty and inequality. Poor governance and exclusion of local voices (particularly from planning and managing of use of natural resources) has eroded pastoralist communities’ distinctive capacity […]