Pastoralist Livelihoods & Nutrition (page 15)
CELEP invited to speak about Covid-19 to European Parliament’s Development Committee
On 3 December 2020, upon invitation of the European Parliament (EP), the European Focal Point of CELEP, Koen Van Troos, took part in a parliamentary session organised by the EP Development Committee. Koen explained how the current crisis related to the outbreak of COVID-19 is affecting pastoralists in Eastern Africa. In May 2020, CELEP had […]
UN Declaration supports rights of pastoralists
In the South Centre Research Paper 123 “The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas: one step forward in the promotion of human rights for the most vulnerable” (2020, 61pp), Maria Natalia Pacheco Rodriguez and Luis Fernando Rosales Lozada describe the process of developing the Declaration adopted […]
Economic impact of COVID-19 in Somali Region, Ethiopia
Outside Addis Ababa, Somali Region of Ethiopia has suffered the highest number of COVID-19 cases, and infections are rising. Given the existing vulnerabilities in the area, the impact of the crisis on livelihoods is expected to be particularly severe, and will be further exacerbated by the desert locust situation. In the report “Economic impact of […]
Evolving pastoral & post-pastoral livelihoods in Eastern African rangelands
Over the past 20 years, the rangelands of Eastern Africa have experienced sweeping changes associated with growing human population, changes in land use, expanding livestock trade and greater investment by domestic and global capital. These trends have coincided with several large shocks that were turning points for how rangeland inhabitants make a living. As livelihoods […]
Changing land-tenure regimes in Darfur, Sudan
The briefing paper “Changing land tenure regimes” (2020, 14pp) by Helen Young et al. of the Feinstein International Center, Tufts University, highlights the evolving and overlapping tenure regimes of pastoralist and crop-farming livelihood systems in Darfur, Sudan. It shows how pastoralism and crop farming in the area represent an integrated approach to managing natural resources, […]