Pastoralism & Natural Resources (page 23)
Improving pastoral tenure security in East Africa
The CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) hosted by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has produced a 2-page Outcome Note, written by Fiona Flintan of ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), on “Improving tenure security for pastoralists in East Africa” (Oct 2020). It gives a very brief summary of PIM support […]
Video on Participatory Rangeland Management
A number of external and internal forces are putting pressure on rangeland resources, often leading to overuse and degradation and conflicts between rangeland users, including pastoralists. Specific ways to deal with these challenges have been developed over the years, including improved rangeland management approaches. In Ethiopia, Participatory Rangeland Management (PRM) has been adopted as an […]
Changing land-tenure regimes in Darfur, Sudan
The briefing paper “Changing land tenure regimes” (2020, 14pp) by Helen Young et al. of the Feinstein International Center, Tufts University, highlights the evolving and overlapping tenure regimes of pastoralist and crop-farming livelihood systems in Darfur, Sudan. It shows how pastoralism and crop farming in the area represent an integrated approach to managing natural resources, […]
Participatory mapping with pastoralists reveals their mental maps
Understanding users’ perception of natural resources is important in planning their sustainable use and management. Pastoralist communities manage their vast grazing territories and exploit resource variability through strategic mobility. To improve understanding of the local knowledge on which this is based and to document this knowledge in a way that can be communicated with “outsiders”, […]
50 years of research on pastoralism & development
The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in the UK has issued a collection of IDS Bulletin articles that reflects on 50 years of research on pastoralism at IDS. The “end of pastoralism” was proclaimed widely in the 1970s, yet pastoralism has survived as a successful, resilient livelihood adapted to some of the harshest environments on […]