Pastoralist Livelihoods & Nutrition (page 25)
Borana women’s network for local food security
Pastoralist societies are known for their strong social networks. The paper “Borana women’s indigenous social network marro in building household food security: case study from Ethiopia” by Abiyot Eliyas Anbach and Darley Jose Kjosavik, published in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice 2018 (8:29), explores the role of marro – a women’s network to access resources […]
Pastoral dairy development in Eastern Africa
CELEP members and partners contributed a poster, abstract and 4-page paper on “Pastoral dairy development for food security and food safety in Eastern Africa: challenges and potentials” to the Tropentag Conference on International Research on Food Security, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development held on 17–19 September 2018 in Ghent, Belgium. In order to inform […]
Improving the livestock sector in Ngorongoro, Tanzania
A report for the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) entitled “Livestock sector in the Ngorongoro District: analysis, shortcomings and options for improvement” (2018, 58pp) by Pablo Manzano and Lucas Yamat, looks at how to increase revenues from livestock in Ngorongoro in northwest Tanzania. In response to the 2017 drought, local communities used different strategies, […]
Livestock & crop system development in Karamoja
The report “Agricultural development in Karamoja, Uganda: recent trends in livestock and crop systems, and resilience impacts” (2018, 78pp), by Adrian Cullis, examines policy and programming trends in agricultural development in Karamoja in northeast Uganda. It was commissioned by the USAID/Uganda Karamoja Resilience Support Unit (KRSU) and covers both crop farming and transhumant livestock management. […]
CELEP at Tropentag 2018 in Ghent, Belgium
The Tropentag is an annual development-oriented and interdisciplinary conference on research in tropical and subtropical agriculture, natural resource management and rural development. The theme of the Tropentag this year, hosted by the University of Ghent in Belgium on 16–19 September 2018, was Global food security and food safety: the role of universities. CELEP co-organised a […]