Pastoralism & Natural Resources (page 45)
Harnessing pastoral knowledge for climate-change adaptation
The paper “Harnessing pastoral knowledge for climate change adaptation in the drylands” presents experience from northern Tanzania and Kenya using a mapping system based on Geographic Information System (GIS) that enables pastoralist communities to demonstrate, in a ‘language’ understood by policymakers and planners, the logic behind the communities’ livelihood strategies. The paper (37pp) was presented […]
Digital mapping by pastoralists in Kenya and Tanzania
The 16-page article Participatory digital map-making in dry areas of Kenya and Tanzania, published in Participatory Learning and Action 66 (2013), describes a natural resource management project in which pastoralist communities in Kenya and Tanzania used Google Earth imagery to identify key resources on a global reference grid. The pastoralists were able to navigate the […]
Review of FAO’s & IFAD’s engagement in pastoral development
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) mandated a joint evaluation of their projects related to pastoral development. The report FAO’s and IFAD’s engagement in pastoral development: joint evaluation synthesis (2016, 115pp) reviews 194 projects somehow related to pastoralism that were formulated in 2003–13 […]
Impacts of index-based livestock insurance in Ethiopia & Kenya
Development institutions have invested millions in developing and piloting index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) because they see large potential benefits for reducing risk for rural households in developing countries, especially in arid and semiarid areas. An IBLI scheme was launched in Eastern Africa in 2010. The Index Insurance Innovation Initiative (University of California Davis) seeks to […]
Mobile herders and legislation in East & West Africa
As part of the IIED project Securing Pastoralism in East and West Africa: Protecting and Promoting Livestock Mobility, a desk review was made “Review of the legislative and institutional environment governing livestock mobility in East and West Africa” (2008, 58pp). This summarises the legislative and institutional environment governing livestock mobility in East and West Africa […]