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Misereor’s pastoral development orientation framework: focus on Ethiopia
On Tuesday 24 September 2019, at the Social and Development Coordination Annual Meeting of the Ethiopian Catholic Church , MISEREOR — the development agency of the German Catholic Bishops’ Conference — presented its Pastoral Development Orientation Framework for working with small-scale producers in pastoral systems in Ethiopia. It was a joint launch with the Ethiopian Catholic […]
Uganda–Kenya Cross-border agreement for the Karamoja cluster
In mid-September 2019, the Presidents of Uganda and Kenya signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a Kenya–Uganda (Turkana/West Pokot – Karamoja) cross-border programme for sustainable peace and socio-economic transformation for the Karamoja cluster. The draft MoU for the joint cross-border initiative can be found here and the joint workplan 2019–23 for the implementation […]
Pastoral resilience in South Sudan’s cross-border areas
The FAO report “Resilience analysis of pastoral and agropastoral communities in South Sudan’s cross-border areas with Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda” (2019, 28pp) presents the results of a baseline survey for the 3-year project “Strengthening the Livelihoods Resilience of Pastoral and Agropastoral Communities in South Sudan’s Cross-border Areas with Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda” funded […]
Sustainable rangeland management in sub-Saharan Africa
Sustainable rangeland management in sub-Saharan Africa: guidelines to good practice (2019, 412 pp), published by WOCAT (World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies) and TerrAfrica, challenges the conventional view that rangelands in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are characterised by overgrazing, erosion, drought, famine and conflict. It shows how local people, often supported by enlightened projects and […]
Pastoral development in Ethiopia
The book Pastoral development in Ethiopia: trends and the way forward (2019, 100 pp) by Esayas Nigatu Gebremeskel, Solomon Desta and Girma Kassa – published by the World Bank and IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) – analyses the impact of investments in pastoralism in Ethiopia over the past 50 years, reviews current literature on […]