Value of Pastoralism (page 22)
Learning from livestock marketing practices in Kenya
A “Learning Route” on Innovative Livestock Marketing from Northern to Eastern Africa was organised by PROCASUR (a Latin American NGO that focuses on South-South learning) in partnership with IFAD from 27 February to 9 March 2012. Participants from various IFAD-supported projects and partners from different countries gathered for an intense journey across various districts and […]
New pastoral development rhetoric: call for abstracts
Much of the literature on the “myths” of pastoral development is fairly old and a lot has changed in the meantime. Misconceptions and misrepresentations are mutating at a fast pace, and new and much more aggressive and programmatic strands of discourse have emerged. The new rhetoric makes use of the myths of pastoral development that […]
Action research challenged myths about the drylands
Back in the 1980s, the drylands were being written off as overexploited wastelands. In 1987, the Drylands Programme of IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development) started to bring together researchers and NGOs in the drylands of sub-Saharan African who shared a different view. Through action research, targeted training and a wide range of publications, […]
Mind the gap: increasing wealth disparity with livestock exports
Building on a regional analysis for the IGAD-FAO Livestock Policy Initiative, Yacob Aklilu and Andy Catley of Tufts University examined how different pastoralist wealth groups in Ethiopia benefit from livestock exports. Mind the gap: commercialization, livelihoods and wealth disparity in pastoralist areas focuses on the Borana and Somali areas, and describes the growing formal trade […]
Diverse livelihood pathways in the Horn of Africa
A fundamental shift in thinking is needed about pastoralist livelihoods – recognising innovation and entrepreneurism, not just coping and migration, and cooperation and networking across borders, not just conflict and violence. The Future Agricultures Consortium at the University of Sussex, UK, has brought out a CAADP Policy Brief Pastoralism in the Horn of Africa: diverse livelihood […]