Pastoralism & Climate Change (page 6)
Agropastoralists’ voices in Africa’s borderlands
The Africa Borderlands Centre of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) made a mixed-method (qualitative and quantitative) study “Promise, peril and resilience: voices of agropastoralists in Africa’s borderland regions” (2022, 152pp) among communities living in borderland regions in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, South Sudan and Uganda. In direct testimonies, community members describe […]
Pastoralism & climate resilience: technical paper + policy brief
Based partly on a CELEP webinar on pastoralism and climate change in December 2021, two publications by Saverio Krätli et al. were brought out by GIZ (German Agency for International Cooperation) in 2022: Technical background paper “Pastoralism and resilience of food production in the face of climate change” (20pp) Policy brief “Climate resilience – what […]
Indigenous weather forecasting by Gujii pastoralists in Ethiopia
The paper “Indigenous weather forecasting among Gujii pastoralists in southern Ethiopia: towards monitoring drought” by Mekuria Guye et al, published in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice (2022), investigates the use of indigenous weather forecasting (IWF) methods by Gujii pastoralists in southern Ethiopia to forecast drought. Data on IWF were collected through household surveys, focus group […]
Assessing policy frame in pastoral areas of sub-Saharan Africa
The policy paper “Assessing the policy frame in pastoral areas of sub-Saharan Africa” (2022, 39pp) by Michele Nori, is one in a series of the Robert Schuman Centre’s Global Governance Programme at the European University Institute looking at the framing of policy around pastoralism in different regions of the world. This one was funded through […]
Improving water investments in the Kenyan drylands
Despite major investments in water infrastructure in dryland areas, the functionality and sustainability of these investments remains a major challenge. The reasons for this were explored in the study “Improving the functionality of water investments in the drylands: learning from Kenya’s County Climate Change Fund” (2022, 80pp) by Claire Bedelian et al, published by the […]