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Resilience & innovation in the Horn of Africa
The publication “Resilience Focus 3” (2016, 78pp), produced by IGAD (Inter-Governmental Authority on Development) and DLCI (Drylands Learning and Capacity Building Initiative for Improved Policy and Practice in the Horn of Africa), highlights key resilience issues in the drylands of the Horn, such as natural resource management, market access and finance services, livelihood support and basic […]
World Bank: Investing in pastoralism 20 years ago
For an historical perspective on pastoral development in Africa, look at the World Bank Technical Paper 365 “Investing in pastoralism: sustainable resource use in arid Africa and the Middle East”, by David Pratt, Francois Le Gall & Cees de Haan (1997, 174pp). The first part deals with natural resource management (NRM), different pastoral systems, assessment […]
How Kenya’s herders got their livestock insured
In a feature article “How Kenya’s herders got their livestock insured” in the online publication Rethink Earth (Resilience Thinking for Global Development), Lucas Larsen writes about the challenges that ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute) scientists are facing in developing insurance for pastoralists in the drylands of Kenya. He relates how it took several tries and […]
Sociocultural impacts of Prosopis on Afar pastoralists in Ethiopia
In the article “Reimagining invasions: the social and cultural impacts of Prosopis on pastoralists in southern Afar, Ethiopia”, published in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice (2017, 7:22), Paul Rogers, Fiona Nunan and Abiy Addisu Fentie look at the sociocultural dimensions of the invasive plant species Prosopis julifloras. They present the perceptions of Afar pastoralists and […]
Changes in livelihoods of evicted agropastoralists in Tanzania
The article “Changes in livelihoods of evicted agro-pastoralists from Ihefu Basin in Tanzania” by GB Msigwa and ZK Mvena, published in Livestock Research for Rural Development 26 (1) 2014, looks at the extent of livelihood change and impoverishment among agropastoralists who were evicted from Ihefu Basin in Mbarali District of Tanzania and forced to settle […]