Pastoralism & Climate Change (page 17)
Borana pastoralists adopt camels to adapt to climate change
Borana pastoralists in southern Ethiopia used to keep primarily cattle but have recently diversified into keeping camels after experiencing recurrent severe droughts. The study “Camel management as an adaptive strategy to climate change by pastoralists in southern Ethiopia” by Galma Wako et al (2017, 12pp) published in Ecological Processes 6:26 (DOI 10.1186/s13717-017-0093-5) looks into evidence […]
Supporting Tanzanian pastoralists facing climate change
In Tanzania, Irish Aid set up a Learning Platform (LP) on climate change, which seeks to generate evidence from case studies on effective ways of mainstreaming climate-risk management into development planning. One of the case studies commissioned by the LP was on three projects involving pastoralists, implemented by TNRF (Tanzania Natural Resources Forum), CARE, Oxfam […]
Households balancing risks & returns for resilience in Darfur
The Feinstein International Center of Tufts University is conducting a series of studies on resilience in the context of Darfur Region of Sudan. The report “Risks and returns: household priorities for resilient livelihoods in Darfur” (2016, 112pp including Arabic summary) examines how numerous shocks of various types over the past 15 years have affected specific […]
Survival of the fittest: pastoralism & climate change in East Africa
Climate change is having a destructive impact on many groups around the world. Pastoralists in East Africa have been adapting to climate variability for millennia and their adaptability ought to enable them to cope with this growing challenge. The Oxfam Briefing Paper “Survival of the fittest: pastoralism and climate change in East Africa” (2008, 47pp) […]
Enhancing resilience to drought in Somali Region, Ethiopia
The 2015–16 El Niño drought in Ethiopia gave Mercy Corps an opportunity to evaluate interventions implemented under the USAID-funded Pastoralist Areas Resilience Improvement through Market Expansion (PRIME) project. The study Enhancing resilience to severe drought: what works? Evidence from Mercy Corps’ PRIME program in the Somali Region of Ethiopia (2017, 48pp) examines whether PRIME interventions since […]