Pastoralism & Natural Resources (page 62)
Action research for Disaster Risk Reduction in Ethiopia & Kenya
In the project “Improved Community Response to Drought” (ICRD) funded by ECHO (European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office), the Vétérinaires Sans Frontières consortium (VSF-Belgium, Germany and Switzerland) is engaged in action research in the Greater Horn of Africa. It is working in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia with Dessanach, Hamer, Somali and Karamoja pastoralists in Pastoral […]
Lake Turkana: East Africa’s “Aral Sea” in the making?
International Rivers has published a study on “The downstream impacts of Ethiopia’s Gibe 3 dam” (2013), now under construction on the Omo River in Southern Ethiopia. It argues that, if the Government of Ethiopia finishes the dam and presses ahead with large-scale irrigation schemes, the hydrological, ecological and socio-economic impacts will generate a region-wide crisis […]
Capitalising on pastoralism to feed people
CELEP has co-issued a policy brief “Capitalising on pastoralism to feed people” together with the League for Pastoral Peoples (LPP), the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), the Local Livestock for Empowerment (LIFE) network, the Rainfed Livestock Network (RLN), the Endogenous Livestock Development (ELD) network and the World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous Peoples (WAMIP). […]
Foreign investment in pastoral areas of Ethiopia and the Sudans
In a 2012 Briefing Paper from Chatham House (UK) “Peace, bread and land: agricultural investments in Ethiopia and the Sudans”, foreign investment in land is analysed within the historical political and economic context of the Horn of Africa. The main focus is on Ethiopia, where the paper points to significant foreign investment in land by […]
Changes in property rights among the Afar in Ethiopia
In three districts in Afar of northeastern Ethiopia, traditional land-use arrangements among pastoralists, changes in pastoral customary rights and resource-based conflicts among various pastoral groups were studied. The results showed that the state is the biggest actor behind changes in property rights, especially in better-endowed areas. The state-driven changes have led to increasing conflicts between […]