Pastoralist Livelihoods & Nutrition (page 18)
CELEP report on Kenya Pastoralists Week 2019
Through CELEP’s Focal Point in Eastern Africa at the NGO RECONCILE, the Coalition contributed to the organisation of the Kenya Pastoralists Week (KPW) held in late December 2019 in Baringo County. The 14-page “Report on the Kenya Pastoralists Week 2019 in Baringo, Kenya: The Economy of Rangelands and Pastoralism” (2020) includes summaries of the main […]
CELEP co-signs call on locust crisis in the Horn
Desert locusts are breeding and spreading quickly through farm- and rangeland across the Horn of Africa – in Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Djibouti, Eritrea and Tanzania. Somalia and Ethiopia are experiencing the worst locust crisis in over 25 years and Kenya the worst in over 70 years. The locust crisis could lead to […]
Context analysis of pastoralism & agropastoralism in Ethiopia
As a contribution to further development of the Draft Policy and Strategy Framework of the Ethiopian Ministry of Federal and Pastoral Development Affairs (MoFPDA), Mercy Corps commissioned the SEGEL Research Training and Consulting PLC to analyse the context of pastoralism and agropastoralism in the country. The “Context analysis of pastoral and agropastoral areas to enrich […]
Good practice in pastoralism, nature conservation & development
The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) brought out a good-practice guide on “Pastoralism, nature conservation and development” (2010, 40pp) on the links between pastoralism, biodiversity and poverty reduction. It describes the role of pastoralism in conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in drylands, and the contribution of pastoralism to poverty reduction and […]
Implications of Ethiopian pastoralist household dynamics for humanitarian aid
For many humanitarian aid actors, the household (HH) is presumed to be the most appropriate social unit for aid delivery. However, it fails to represent the complex structures of pastoralist families and their temporal and spatial dynamics. This can have significant implications for aid targeting. In the context of a severe drought and the humanitarian […]