Pastoralism & Climate Change (page 10)

Pastoralism: making variability work

The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has published “Pastoralism: making variability work” (2021, Animal Production & Health Paper 185, 58pp) written by Saverio Krätli and Ilse Koehler-Rollefsen with comments and guidance from FAO staff and pastoralist specialists worldwide. Pastoral systems have evolved to function with the natural environment and therefore with […]

IYRP side event at HLPF on Sustainable Development 6 July 2021

The International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists (IYRP) Support Group (ISG), including CELEP, and led by Maryam Niamir, co-chair fo the ISG, organised a side event at the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development on 6 July 2021. The speaker from Eastern Africa (CELEP) was Hussein Wario, Director of the Centre for Research and […]

Pastoralism is the future – animated video

Man-made climate change is creating conditions on our planet that are increasingly characterised by variability and unpredictability. Pastoralists use variability to their advantage. Their production systems guide us to a sustainable future. Find out how they do it in this 2:23-min animated video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeqITzac9Ac This video film was created by Cartoonbase and realised by CELEP […]

Impact of renewable energy projects on Kenyan pastoralists

The report “The impact of renewable energy projects on indigenous communities in Kenya” (2019, 44pp) by Ilse Renkens was published by the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) in Denmark. It investigates the impact of two renewable energy projects on pastoralists in Kenya: the Lake Turkana Wind Power project and the Olkaria Geothermal Power […]

Camels raise Karamoja pastoralist households’ resilience to drought

In pastoral systems in arid and semi-arid parts of Eastern Africa, including Uganda, camels are increasingly being integrated into herds as a strategy to adapt to increasing drought. The study “The role of camel production on household resilience to droughts in pastoral and agro-pastoral households in Uganda” by Robert Asiimwe et al., published in Pastoralism: […]

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