Pastoralism, Mobility & Land Tenure (page 40)
The futures of pastoralism in Africa
On 1 March 2012, Andy Catley of the Africa Regional Office of Tufts University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, made a briefing to the European Parliament in Brussels. He highlighted the many different futures of pastoralism, differentiating between those pastoralists who are “moving up” and taking advantage of the high market demand for livestock products and those pastoralists […]
Pastoral displacement in northern Kenya
A range of factors has led to the displacement of thousands of pastoralists in northern Kenya. This situation has been under-reported and under-studied, and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northern Kenya have received little assistance. Against this backdrop, the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) of the Norwegian Refugee […]
ILRI response to open letter to Gates
ILRI (International Livestock Centre for Africa) has responded to the open letter from VSF / CELEP with a news clipping “Herding livestock makes more sense than growing crops in arid lands”
Bill Gates, seeds alone will not end poverty!
Vétérinaires Sans Frontières (VSF) Belgium, member of the Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP), warmly welcomes the recent expressed opinion of Bill Gates about foreign aid in the media. Foreign aid programmes do matter and certainly if they address poor farmers – the majority of people in developing countries. But VSF Belgium […]
In your hands: AU Pastoral Policy Framework
The very fact that the African Union (AU) has produced a framework document for pastoral policy in Africa is a big step forward and a great support to advocacy for pastoralism. The document underlines the rationale of mobile pastoral production systems and its positive response to new market opportunities, To draw attention to this important […]