Pastoralism & Climate Change (page 18)
Pastoralism Information Notes
In 2009 or 2010 (no date given), the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) brought out a series of eight “Pastoralism Information Notes” under coordination by John Morton. The notes, each by different authors, cover the following topics: Opportunities for pastoralist development Challenges to pastoral development Rights, governance and voice Improving risk reduction and relief development linkages […]
PENHA conference on pastoralism past & future
Pastoralism: past perspectives and future policy (2015, 78pp) is a report on a one-day conference held in October 2015 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of PENHA (Pastoral and Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa). The conference was organised by PENHA and the Humanitarian Policy Group of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), […]
Transitions in agropastoralist systems in East Africa
Climate-induced livelihood transitions in the African farming systems are increasingly likely. Mariana Rufino et al of the CGIAR’s Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) programme carried out fieldwork in 12 sites in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to understand recent changes in farming systems, and to test the hypothesis that sedentary agropastoralists in zones that […]
Borana pastoralists’ indigenous climate-forecasting methods
The paper “The use of indigenous climate forecasting methods by the pastoralists of Northern Kenya”, by Anastasia Kagunyu et al, published in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice (2016), focuses on the early-warning signs of climate variation used by Borana pastoralists in Isiolo County to predict the onset of rainfall, floods and droughts – and the […]
How Kenya Borana pastoralists forecast climate variation
The paper “The use of indigenous climate forecasting methods by the pastoralists of Northern Kenya” (Anastasia Kagunyu et al, 2016, published in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice) focuses on the early-warning signs of climate variation used by the Borana community of Isiolo County, Kenya. A study was made of how the Borana predict the onset of […]