Pastoralist Livelihoods & Nutrition (page 11)
Empowering women through participatory rangeland management
A key objective in piloting Participatory Rangeland Management (PRM) in Kenya and Tanzania was to support empowerment of pastoral women – to improve access to material, human and social resources; to enable women to have greater control over setting goals and taking action to achieve them; and to improve women’s wellbeing and capacity to make […]
Governing the periphery: Ethiopia’s PSNP in Somali Region
The change in relationship between pastoralists and central government brought about by Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) is explored in the article “Development, governmentality and the sedentary state: the productive safety net programme in Ethiopia’s Somali pastoral periphery” by Getu Demeke Alene et al (The Journal of Peasant Studies 2021 DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2021.1945044). The case […]
Climate-change policy narratives vs pastoralists in Ethiopia & Kenya
Drawing on case studies in Ethiopia and Kenya, the paper “Climate change policy narratives and pastoralist predicaments in the Horn of Africa: insights from Ethiopia and Kenya” (2021, 4pp), presented by Tom Campbell at the Joint International Grassland & Rangeland Congress 2021, examines the discourses and narratives found in contemporary climate-change and national development policy, […]
CELEP Uganda: Pastoralists use & protect rangeland ecosystems
At the International Grassland & Rangeland Congress (25–29 Oct 2021), the Pastoralist Knowledge Hub hosted a concurrent session on “Securing land tenure for pastoralists as an incentive for engaging actively in the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration”. This highlighted the crucial role of pastoralists in the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–30). Rangelands cover over half […]
Land degradation neutrality: participatory range assessment
In rangelands, land degradation has an immediate and local impact by disrupting ecosystems from functioning, threatening livelihoods, negatively affecting social cohesion and threatening productivity. Land degradation in rangelands is poorly understood because of a lack of robust data and misconceptions of management objectives. Day-to-day land management by pastoralist communities is intricately linked to local knowledge […]