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Economic case for community-based adaptation in dryland Kenya
A study made by the new economics foundation (nef), on behalf of CARE, shows that community-based adaptation (CBA) makes strong economic sense. The various scenarios comparing systematic and planned adaptation to a situation with no support to adaptation are based on learning from the real situation of two communities in Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands […]
Pastoral institutions for managing natural resources
Pastoralists have adapted to the uncertainty of their environment in many ways, but a key feature is their strong social organisation. They have developed complex customary institutions to enable flexibility and opportunism in managing and using natural resources, in order to allow mobility and to enable pastoralist societies to withstand extreme pressures. Their customary institutions […]
Access to water & pastoralist livelihoods
Water development in pastoral drylands of Africa has always been a priority for humanitarian and development agencies and for governments. However, experts have raised increasing concerns about its numerous adverse effects. In 2006 FAO’s Livelihood Support Programme reviewed the lessons learned in implementing pastoral and hydraulic projects in parts of eastern Africa: the Haud in […]
Resilience analysis to guide pastoralist policy
The paper “Applying resilience thinking to questions of policy for pastoralist systems: lessons from the Gabra of Northern Kenya“ (in Human Ecology) explores the relevance of a systematic application of resilience thinking to questions of pastoralist policy. It analyses the social-ecological system of the Gabra people in north-central Kenya and identifies indicators of the components, […]
What works? Impact of pastoral development interventions in Ethiopia
An overview of impact assessment and reviews made of pastoral development interventions in Ethiopia has been compiled by Feinstein International Center, Tufts University. It was commissioned by the Pastoralist Livelihoods Initiative (PLI) and looks at assessments made in the period 2000-04 (before PLI started) and impact assessments and reviews made under PLI from 2006 onwards. The […]