Pastoralist Livelihoods & Nutrition (page 6)
Making green energy safe for pastoralists
One of the authors of the study on Pastoralism-and-large-scale-REnewable-energy-and-green-hydrogen-projects, Hussein Wario, Director of the Centre for Research & Development in Drylands (CRDD) in northern Kenya, gave his perspective on the study findings in a blog for Project Syndicate “Making green energy safe for pastoralists“ – also available in Spanish (Que la energiá verde sea segura para […]
Resilience & adaptation of pastoral herd mobility in West Darfur, Sudan
The dynamics of herd mobility in West Darfur, Sudan, a region affected by persistent conflict, is reported in the article “The resilience and adaptation of pastoralist livestock mobility in a protracted conflict setting: West Darfur, Sudan” (2023, Nomadic Peoples 27: 3-31, doi: 10.3197/np.2023.270102) by Hussein Sulieman and Helen Young. They examine the annual cycle and […]
Empowerment of pastoralist women in Sudan
Pastoralist women in Eastern Sudan managed to improve their livelihoods by producing alternative animal feed from local resources. They became able to do so after receiving training from a local pastoralist organisation supported by Oxfam Novib’s partner PENHA (Pastoral & Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa), a CELEP member. In the case study Empowerment of […]
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 […]
Theory & practice of conservancies: WMAs in Tanzania
The article “Theory and practice of conservancies: evidence from wildlife management areas in Tanzania” by Fidelcastor Kimario et al (published 2020 in Erdkunde 74 (2): 117–141) analyses the performance of Tanzanian Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) to better understand their relevance for safeguarding biodiversity outside of traditional protected areas, e.g. national parks. It assesses the potential […]