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Poverty and income inequality in Afar communities in Ethiopia
The CELEP member PENHA (Pastoral and Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa) published the paper “Status and determinants of poverty and income inequality in pastoral and agro-pastoral communities: household-based evidence from Afar Regional State, Ethiopia” in World Development Perspectives 15 (2019). It analyses determinants of poverty and income inequality in pastoralist and agropastoralist communities […]
Economic value of livestock in Karamoja, Uganda
In the report from the Karamoja Resilience Support Unit (KRSU, supported by USAID, UKaid and Irish Aid) entitled “The productivity and economic value of livestock in Karamoja Sub-region, Uganda” (2019, 73pp), RH Behnke and RL Arasio calculate the “direct use value” of the Karamoja livestock. This concept combines all the economic benefits derived from livestock, […]
Pastoralists, politics, development projects & conflict in Kenya
Dryland counties of northern Kenya are expected to undergo massive change in the coming years because of the Government’s ambitious infrastructural development agenda, but the area frequently experiences ethnic and political conflict. A case study was made in Isiolo County, where planned development projects and conflict risks coincide. In the Bonn International Centre for Conversion […]
Impacts of Prosopis invasion on livelihoods of Afar pastoralists
Scientists in Haramaya and Addis Ababa Universities in Ethiopia made a study on “Impacts of woody invasive alien plant species on rural livelihood: generalized propensity score evidence from Prosopis spp. invasion in Afar Region in Ethiopia” (published 2018 in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice 8, article 28) to assess the impact of Prosopis invasion on […]
Livestock’s contributions to SDGs in developing economies
In the World Economic Forum “Meat: the future” series, the paper “Options for the livestock sector in developing and emerging economies to 2030 and beyond” (2019, 28pp), written by a team at ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), examines the roles of livestock in achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. It makes the […]