Pastoralism & Marketing (page 3)
Factors influencing migration & settlement of pastoralists in Nairobi
Pastoralism faces numerous challenges, including land-use and land-tenure change that diminish grazing land and conversion of traditional grazing lands into other uses such as settlements. Urbanisation is one of the key drivers of pastoral system dynamics. Understanding such dynamics in the face of compounding factors such as frequent droughts linked to climate change is key […]
Sugar estates destroy Bodi pastoralism in Ethiopia
The article “Sugar industrialization and distress selling of livestock among the Bodi pastoralists in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley” by Fana Gebresenbet, published in Pastoralism 11:22 (2021), shows that the Bodi, a small agropastoral community in southern Ethiopia, are experiencing collective impoverishment and are selling their livestock out of distress. This is due to the rapid […]
Impact of Covid-19 on cattle traders in Uganda
A study of “The impacts of Covid-19 on cattle traders and their response in agro-pastoral and pastoral regions in Uganda: a case of Karamoja and Teso cattle traders” by John Ilukor et al, published in Pastoralism 12: 18 (2022) revealed that cattle traders were negatively affected by Covid-19. They sold fewer cattle (25% sold no […]
Financing livestock trade in Kenya, Mali & Somalia
The scoping paper “Financing livestock trade: formal and informal finance in Kenya, Mali and Somalia” (2022, 60pp) by Rupsha Banerjee et al looks at the degree to which traders marketing livestock from the rangelands use formal financial services including savings, payments, credit and insurance, and examines the development of these services. The study found that: […]
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 […]