Pastoralism & Climate Change (page 18)
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 […]
Pastoralism Information Notes
In 2009 or 2010 (no date given), the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) brought out a series of eight “Pastoralism Information Notes” under coordination by John Morton. The notes, each by different authors, cover the following topics: Opportunities for pastoralist development Challenges to pastoral development Rights, governance and voice Improving risk reduction and relief development linkages […]
PENHA conference on pastoralism past & future
Pastoralism: past perspectives and future policy (2015, 78pp) is a report on a one-day conference held in October 2015 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of PENHA (Pastoral and Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa). The conference was organised by PENHA and the Humanitarian Policy Group of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), […]
Transitions in agropastoralist systems in East Africa
Climate-induced livelihood transitions in the African farming systems are increasingly likely. Mariana Rufino et al of the CGIAR’s Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) programme carried out fieldwork in 12 sites in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to understand recent changes in farming systems, and to test the hypothesis that sedentary agropastoralists in zones that […]