Pastoralism & Natural Resources (page 73)
ILRI response to open letter to Gates
ILRI (International Livestock Centre for Africa) has responded to the open letter from VSF / CELEP with a news clipping “Herding livestock makes more sense than growing crops in arid lands”
Bill Gates, seeds alone will not end poverty!
Vétérinaires Sans Frontières (VSF) Belgium, member of the Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP), warmly welcomes the recent expressed opinion of Bill Gates about foreign aid in the media. Foreign aid programmes do matter and certainly if they address poor farmers – the majority of people in developing countries. But VSF Belgium […]
Afar pastoralists in a changing environment
Afar pastoralists in a changing rangeland environment is a synopsis of a doctoral thesis (Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences) by an Ethiopian rangeland scholar, Diress Tsegaye. It offers an interesting combination of wider pastoral systems views and detailed biological studies. The thesis itself includes two papers that deal with […]
New info source on rangelands tenure
The International Land Coalition (ILC) has opened a new page on rangelands tenure on its Land Portal. This page features news and articles about traditional and modern institutions of land tenure in the drylands, issues of common property resources, national land use policies and bills, and land transactions – focused on eastern Africa.
Changing gender roles in the East African drylands
The Oxfam-led Regional Learning and Advocacy Project (REGLAP) aims to promote resilience among vulnerable dryland communities in Uganda, Ethiopia and Kenya through policy change and practice. It recently brought out a study on gender roles in dryland communities in the Horn of Africa and implications for development programming.The changing nature of gender roles in the […]