Pastoralism & Marketing (page 1)
Building on the knowledge & initiatives of pastoralist women
The Working Group on Pastoralism & Gender in the Global Alliance for the International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists (IYRP) has published a summary policy brief “Building on the knowledge and initiatives of pastoralist women“. The longer (6-page) policy brief, with the same title, on which the summary was based, includes several examples of pastoralist […]
Kenyan pastoralists’ high-reliability networks critical for resilience
As part of an action-research project ‘Resilience from Below’ funded by the Australian Centre for International and Agricultural Research and the Tufts University Feinstein International Center’s research on early warning and humanitarian response, the Centre for Research and Development in the Drylands (CRDD) is looking into how pastoralist communities in Kenya organise themselves in daily […]
Explaining the basics of pastoralism in Africa
In April 2024, Tufts University’s Feinstein International Center and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) brought out a series of publications that will be very useful for explaining the basics of pastoralism to others. The publications were designed for staff of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and its partners with […]
With camelids into a sustainable future
For the International Year of Camelids 2024, Misereor, DITSL (German Institute for Tropical & Subtropical Agriculture) and LPP (League for Pastoral Peoples) in Germany have brought out a dossier on pastoral camelid husbandry around the world: “With camelids into a sustainable future: learning from pastoralist communities” (2024, 20pp), published by welt-sichten, Frankfurt. It describes the […]
Economic contribution of pastoral meat trade in northern Kenya
The study “Economic contribution of the pastoral meat trade in Isiolo Town, Kenya” (2015, 32pp) by BC Gituku and colleagues uses a total economic valuation approach to characterise the economic contribution of pastoral meat production to the economy of Isiolo Town. It is based on semi-structured and key-informant interviews with livestock traders, brokers, butchers, transporters, […]