Pastoralism & Natural Resources (page 40)
Local knowledge + spatial technology to understand range ecosystems
Local knowledge and spatial technologies were combined to assess resource changes in the Amboseli ecosystem in southern Kenya. Reduction of grazing land was perceived to be the main change over the last 40 years and was reported to be more pronounced under sedentary and semi-nomadic land uses than in the nomadic pastoral land-use sites. These observed […]
DLCI journal Resilience in the drylands Vol. 5
The fifth volume (Dec 2014, 52pp) of the DLCI (Drylands Learning and Capacity Building Initiative for Improved Policy and Practice in the Horn of Africa) journal on resilience building in the drylands of the Horn of Africa contains articles on natural resource management in Ethiopia and Uganda, livestock insurance, Turkana’s aquifers, measuring resilience, the pastoralist […]
Changes in pastoral resources in eastern Sudan
The pastoral resources in eastern Sudan are changing under the combined impact of increasing anthropogenic activities such as clearance of natural vegetation and the effect of state policies that favour crop farming against pastoralism. The article “Monitoring changes in pastoral resources in eastern Sudan: a synthesis of remote sensing and local knowledge” by Hussein Sulieman and […]
Borana pastoralists’ indigenous climate-forecasting methods
The paper “The use of indigenous climate forecasting methods by the pastoralists of Northern Kenya”, by Anastasia Kagunyu et al, published in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice (2016), focuses on the early-warning signs of climate variation used by Borana pastoralists in Isiolo County to predict the onset of rainfall, floods and droughts – and the […]
Water development in Ethiopia’s pastoral areas
The report Water development in Ethiopia’s pastoral areas: a synthesis of existing knowledge and experience (2012, 55pp) published by Save the Children USA and ODI (Overseas Development Institute) looks at water development undertaken in Ethiopia by government, NGOs, development partners and pastoralists themselves. The report maps the institutions, policies, programmes and activities of different actors, […]