Pastoralism & Natural Resources (page 67)
Impact of conflict on pastoral resilience in the Horn
A study in 2012 by RECONCILE (Resource Conflict Institute) for FAO, “Impact of conflict on pastoralist communities’ resilience in the Horn of Africa”, shows how conflict affects the opportunistic use of range resources by pastoralists. Because conflict renders certain strategic rangelands inaccessible, pressures on the accessible resources increase, leading to their overuse and degradation, thereby […]
Adapting to climate change in the water sector in Ethiopia
A study by RIPPLE (Resource-Inspired Policy and Practice Learning in Ethiopia and the Nile Region) looked into the effectiveness of planned climate-change adaptation interventions in highland, midland and lowland sites in Oromia and Somali Regions of Ethiopia, including pastoral and agropastoral areas. Water resources are likely to be particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate […]
Making Rangelands Secure Bulletin 1 (July 2012)
The first quarterly bulletin on “Making Rangelands Secure in East and Horn of Africa” (July 2012) has been issued by the International Land Coalition (ILC). It brings news on, among other things, the “learning route” from Nairobi to Arusha in February 2012, the National Workshop on Pastoral Development held in Ethiopia in March 2012 and […]
Economic case for community-based adaptation in dryland Kenya
A study made by the new economics foundation (nef), on behalf of CARE, shows that community-based adaptation (CBA) makes strong economic sense. The various scenarios comparing systematic and planned adaptation to a situation with no support to adaptation are based on learning from the real situation of two communities in Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands […]
Pastoral institutions for managing natural resources
Pastoralists have adapted to the uncertainty of their environment in many ways, but a key feature is their strong social organisation. They have developed complex customary institutions to enable flexibility and opportunism in managing and using natural resources, in order to allow mobility and to enable pastoralist societies to withstand extreme pressures. Their customary institutions […]