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Impact of COVID-19 on livestock & livelihoods

In “Covid-19, livestock and livelihoods: a discussion paper for the Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS)” (2020, 22pp), Andy Catley reviews the impacts of Covid-19 on livestock keepers in lower-income countries, and on providers of livestock services and programmes. It also reviews the responses of livestock keepers and organisations to the pandemic. It is based […]

Contribution of livestock to Sudanese economy

In the report “The contribution of livestock to the Sudanese economy” (2012, 56pp) commissioned by Inter-Governmental Authority on Development’s Livestock Policy Initiative (IGAD LPI), Roy Behnke & Hala Mohamed Osman assess the contribution of livestock to Sudan’s national economy. Conventional GDP accounting ignores some benefits that people derive from livestock in subsistence-oriented economies, when households […]

Hybrid pastoralists: Turkana adapt to development interventions

With development interventions, Turkana pastoralists have adapted to the new situation and built up new ways of cooperation between the pastoralists in the rangelands and the Turkana who are no longer actively practising pastoralism and often live in towns. In the working paper “Hybrid pastoralists – development interventions and new Turkana identities” (2014, 30pp) published […]

Irish Aid support to pastoralism in Tanzania 2007–16

This “Review of Irish Aid support to pastoralism in Tanzania” (2016, 86pp) in the period 2007–16 was based on reports and evaluations of the Pastoralist Basket Fund Programme (PBFP) and the subsequent Pastoralist Programme. Achievements included increased pastoralist CSO capacity, greater general awareness on pastoralism as a way of life, better service delivery for pastoralists […]

Cross-border activities for livelihood security in the Horn of Africa

Pastoralist communities have long carried out a wide range of cross-border activities to protect their livelihoods and livestock production systems in order to cope with the recurrent climatic variations typical of dryland environments. However, there is limited understanding of the nature, magnitude and value of these cross-border livelihood activities in the Horn of Africa. National […]

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