Pastoralism & Climate Change (page 25)
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 […]
Global policy narratives on drylands & pastoralism
The global narratives that dominate agricultural policy are built on crisis scenarios around meeting projected food demand, now complicated by global climate change and food price spikes. The role given to drylands and pastoralism in these narratives shows little consistency, except for characterising them as lacking in some way, e.g. as unproductive, resource scarce, fragile, […]
Pastoral adaptation to climate change: Ethiopians learn in Mali
Ethiopians from five partner organisations in the Drylands Coordination Group (DCG) visited Mali in 2011 to learn about good practices in pastoral adaptation to the effects of climate change. The hosts were DCG Mali and the Malian Arid Lands Development Organisation (MALDO). In Nioro du Sahel and Nara in northern Mali, they learned how the […]
Counting on uncertainty in North-East Kenya
In a semi-arid part of Kenya, the new economics foundation (nef) and CARE International explored whether the benefits created by projects investing in climate-change adaptation outweigh their implementation and opportunity costs. Adaptation interventions pushed by multilateral donors often focus on so-called “hard” adaptation measures at macro scale, such as infrastructural investment. The study “Counting on […]