Pastoralist Livelihoods & Nutrition (page 61)
Improved livelihoods for African pastoralists
In an 8-page Practice Brief on “Improved livelihoods for pastoralists” (2012), the Netherlands development organisation SNV shares its experiences in helping pastoralists in Africa improve their livelihoods. It brings together numerous cases from Eastern and West Africa that show some of the commonalities in pastoralist practices, such as in water-resource management in Tanzania and Niger. […]
More good practice: drought preparedness, resilient livelihoods & coordination
A third issue of Disaster Risk Reduction in the Drylands of the Horn of Africa was brought out by REGLAP (Regional Learning and Advocacy Programme for Vulnerable Dryland Communities) in December 2012, with more examples of good practice. The first section focuses on drought preparedness and mitigation. It includes articles on: the refined Drought Early Warning […]
Pastoralists in the Horn are risk managers
Pastoralism is an adaptation to risk and is a way to sustain the resilience of dryland ecosystems. It seeks optimal land-use performance over space and time through using complex and flexible strategies in a highly uncertain environment. The policy brief “Pastoralists as shrewd managers of risk and resilience” issued by WISP (World Initiative for Sustainable […]
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 […]