Pastoralism & Climate Change (page 15)
Effectiveness of livestock insurance in managing climate risk in Ethiopia
Over the past four years, the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) collaborated with CIFA (Community Initiative Facilitation and Assistance), Oromia Insurance Company and ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute) in piloting index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) to protect Ethiopian livestock-keepers from drought‐related asset losses. The report “Participatory research on the effectiveness of index-based livestock insurance as […]
Links between climate resilience and peace in pastoral Ethiopia
The USAID report “Lessons learned from the Peace Centers for Climate and Social Resilience: an assessment in Borana Zone, Oromia National Regional State, Ethiopia” (2017, 80pp) assesses the lessons learnt from a pilot project in Borana Zone. This project tested the hypothesis that collaborative community activities to strengthen climate resilience, focused on building key institutional […]
Putting drought in its context in Eastern Africa
The 10-page well-illustrated article “Drought does not work alone” (2017) by Roger Few, University of East Anglia, comes out of the work of the ASSAR (Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions) project. ASSAR uses insights from multiple-scale, interdisciplinary work to improve the understanding of the barriers, enablers and limits to effective, sustained and widespread climate […]
Vulnerability & adaptation to climate change in semi-arid Eastern Africa
The Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR) Consortium seeks to deepen understanding of climate vulnerability and adaptation in semi-arid areas, and to help embed adaptation practice in development activities. A central focus is on advancing adaptive livelihoods for vulnerable groups such as pastoralists. One of the research teams is studying dryland zones of Ethiopia, […]
Safe movement for adaptation by pastoralists in the Horn
In the brochure “Advocating for safe movement as a climate change adaptation strategy for pastoralists in the Horn and East Africa: highlights and key messages” (2010, 22pp), the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), International Organization for Migration (IOM), UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) advocate for […]