General Policy Documents (page 6)
Land grabbing and human rights
The Directorate-General for External Policies of the European Parliament issued a report Land grabbing and human rights (2016, 130pp) on the involvement of European corporate and financial entities in land grabbing outside the European Union. The report refers several times to pastoralists and explicitly mentions them in the introduction: “The same applies to pastoralist communities. […]
United Nations resolution promotes pastoralism
In May 2016, the second meeting of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA2) of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) adopted Resolution L.24 “Combating desertification, land degradation and drought and promoting sustainable pastoralism and rangelands“. Among other things, it urges Member States to increase investment in the pastoral livestock sector, including for sustainable land management, […]
Knowledge management & research for resilience in Horn of Africa
This 18-page Technical Brief 5 Knowledge management & research for resilience in the drylands of the Horn of Africa (2013) is part of a series prepared by the Technical Consortium for Building Resilience to Drought in the Horn of Africa led by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). It explores the issues around knowledge management: what […]
From commitment to action: funding to build resilience in the Horn
In 2011 the member states of the Inter-Governmental Agency for Development (IGAD) and donor organisations launched the IGAD Drought Disaster Resilience and Sustainability Initiative (IDDRSI). It seeks to reduce disaster risks and improve livelihoods in the Horn using an integrated programming framework at national and regional levels, and to shift from humanitarian funding to development […]
AGIR: Global Alliance for Resilience Initiative
This 4-page factsheet (February 2014) “AGIR: building resilience to food and nutrition crises in the Sahel & West Africa”, compiled by the European Commission Humanitarian Office (ECHO), brings facts and figures about the humanitarian situation in the Sahel and West Africa and the EU response through contribution to the Global Alliance for Resilience Initiative (AGIR) […]