Value of Pastoralism (page 23)
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 […]
Strengthening voices: Tanzanian pastoralists shape their future
Patterns and intensity of rainfall are changing and the seasons are becoming more unpredictable in the drylands of Tanzania, as is happening throughout the drylands in East Africa. Pastoralism provides over 90% of the meat and milk products consumed in Tanzania. Pastoralists make productive use of the scattered and changing resources in the dryland ecosystems, […]
The golden udder: marketing camel milk
Marketing milk from camels in Puntland, Somalia by Michele Nori In Puntland in northeastern Somalia, an elaborate system of trading milk has emerged since the early 1990s. An interesting feature of this system is that milk and its marketing are managed mainly by women, even though men own the camels and are responsible for managing, […]
Bill Gates, seeds alone will not end poverty!
Vétérinaires Sans Frontières (VSF) Belgium, member of the Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP), warmly welcomes the recent expressed opinion of Bill Gates about foreign aid in the media. Foreign aid programmes do matter and certainly if they address poor farmers – the majority of people in developing countries. But VSF Belgium […]
Sugar versus agro-pastoralism in southern Ethiopia
The Oakland Institute, an independent think-tank in the United States, explains how land deals in the Lower Omo Valley of southern Ethiopia are affecting the lives of the indigenous Bodi, Suri, Mursi, Hamer, Dassenach and other agro-pastoralists. The September 2011 Land Deal Brief “Understanding land investment deals in Africa“ sees half a million lives threatened […]