Value of Pastoralism (page 19)
Pastoralism: a critical asset for food security
Animal Frontiers, a review magazine on animal agriculture, has published a special issue on the contribution of animal production to global food security. One of the articles, “Pastoralism: a critical asset for food security under global climate change”, examines the role that pastoralism plays in relation to food security, particularly in the face of increased […]
Livestock, wildlife & other biodiversity in Kenya
Studies since 1995 of cattle and wild grazing animals on savanna rangeland in Laikipia, Kenya, have led to better understanding of competition and coexistence between these two groups of herbivores and how they affect biodiversity. By 2011 the research revealed, among other things, that: 1) the pastoral practice of keeping livestock overnight in corrals (“bomas”) […]
Protecting and promoting pastoralism in Africa
The Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (CTA) brought out a policy brief in June 2012 on Protecting and promoting pastoralism in Africa, based on the Brussels Development Briefing on New Challenges and Opportunities for Pastoralism in ACP Countries in February 2012. It states that pastoralism supports tens of millions of people, makes the […]
Livestock mobility in Chad: desk review
As part of the project “Securing Pastoralism in East and West Africa: Protecting and Promoting Livestock Mobility”, a desk review was made on pastoralism in Chad. Livestock mobility is important in this country for both seasonal transhumance and for access to domestic and international markets. The study focuses on the former. It gives a brief […]
On the hoof: livestock trade in Darfur, Sudan
Researchers with Feinstein International Center explored what has happened to the livestock trade in the greater Darfur region during nine years of conflict since 2003. Livestock is one of Darfur’s main economic assets and makes a major contribution to Sudan’s national livestock and meat exports. The report On the hoof: livestock trade in Darfur, by […]