Pastoralism & Climate Change (page 5)
CELEP input to German Parliament discussion on green energy
On 25 May 2023, the German Parliament’s Office of Technology Assessment (TA) and Committee for Education, Research and TA held a workshop on “Chancen und Risiken von Wasserstoffpartnerschaften und –technologien in Entwicklungsländern” (Opportunities and risks of hydrogen partnerships and technologies in developing countries). Interim results from the TA project to assess the impact of “green” […]
Carbon offsetting replaces Kenyan pastoralists’ land use
The report “Blood carbon: how a carbon offset scheme makes millions from indigenous land in northern Kenya” (2023, 70pp) by Simon Counsell and Survival International focuses on the 2 million ha Northern Kenya Grassland Carbon Project of the Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT). The NRT calls it the world’s largest soil carbon removal project and the […]
CELEP contributes to MOOC on pastoralism in development
Pastoral development would benefit greatly from a better understanding of pastoralism by project planners. CELEP member organisation IIED (International Institute for Environment & Development) and Saverio Krätli (editor of Nomadic Peoples) have created a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), funded by Misereor, Germany, as an entry point for navigating the available knowledge on pastoralism, including […]
Making green energy safe for pastoralists
One of the authors of the study on Pastoralism-and-large-scale-REnewable-energy-and-green-hydrogen-projects, Hussein Wario, Director of the Centre for Research & Development in Drylands (CRDD) in northern Kenya, gave his perspective on the study findings in a blog for Project Syndicate “Making green energy safe for pastoralists“ – also available in Spanish (Que la energiá verde sea segura para […]
Revival of the drylands & pastoral livelihoods in Eastern Africa
In the article “The revival of the drylands: re-learning resilience to climate change from pastoral livelihoods in East Africa” (Climate and Development 2023, https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2022.2160197), Greta Semplici and Tom Campbell review different waves of rural politics and development in the East African drylands, with a focus on Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands, in the context of climate change. They […]