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IUCN documents on pastoralism in Eastern Africa
Studies on pastoralism in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda can be found on the IUCN website under Eastern Africa. Documents are classified according to: Indigenous knowledge for drought-resilient livelihoods; Pastoralism as conservation in the Horn of Africa; and Natural resource management and biodiversity conservation in Eastern Africa. The general link to the series of […]
Protecting and promoting pastoralism in Africa
The Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (CTA) brought out a policy brief in June 2012 on Protecting and promoting pastoralism in Africa, based on the Brussels Development Briefing on New Challenges and Opportunities for Pastoralism in ACP Countries in February 2012. It states that pastoralism supports tens of millions of people, makes the […]
Making money out of a thorny problem: Prosopis in Ethiopia
In the arid Afar region of Ethiopia, few plants can survive on the low and erratic rainfall. However, one plant that survives and thrives is Prosopis, a thorny tree that was introduced into Ethiopia in the 1970s to stabilise the soil and combat desertification but spread rapidly, eating up over 1.2 million ha of the […]
Early warning in Afar & Somali: what worked & what didn’t
The Preparedness Improves Livelihoods and Resilience (PILLARII) project sought to improve the drought preparedness of pastoralists in Somali and Afar Regions of Ethiopia. With the support of ECHO (European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office), Save the Children UK facilitated community contingency planning and early-warning systems (EWS) which were meant to lead to community-level responses to shocks […]
Livestock mobility in Chad: desk review
As part of the project “Securing Pastoralism in East and West Africa: Protecting and Promoting Livestock Mobility”, a desk review was made on pastoralism in Chad. Livestock mobility is important in this country for both seasonal transhumance and for access to domestic and international markets. The study focuses on the former. It gives a brief […]