Pastoralism & Peacebuilding (page 7)
Livestock & crop system development in Karamoja
The report “Agricultural development in Karamoja, Uganda: recent trends in livestock and crop systems, and resilience impacts” (2018, 78pp), by Adrian Cullis, examines policy and programming trends in agricultural development in Karamoja in northeast Uganda. It was commissioned by the USAID/Uganda Karamoja Resilience Support Unit (KRSU) and covers both crop farming and transhumant livestock management. […]
Links between climate resilience and peace in pastoral Ethiopia
The USAID report “Lessons learned from the Peace Centers for Climate and Social Resilience: an assessment in Borana Zone, Oromia National Regional State, Ethiopia” (2017, 80pp) assesses the lessons learnt from a pilot project in Borana Zone. This project tested the hypothesis that collaborative community activities to strengthen climate resilience, focused on building key institutional […]
Safe movement for adaptation by pastoralists in the Horn
In the brochure “Advocating for safe movement as a climate change adaptation strategy for pastoralists in the Horn and East Africa: highlights and key messages” (2010, 22pp), the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), International Organization for Migration (IOM), UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) advocate for […]
Building resilience and protecting livelihoods in conflict areas
Resilience is the ability of people to mitigate, withstand and bounce back from shocks and stresses. Much research on resilience has focused on climatic, environmental and economic risk. However, different kinds of analysis are needed to understand the resilience of people living in situations of violent conflict. For the past 15 years, the Feinstein International […]
Innovative ways to reduce farmer-herder conflicts
Procasur Corporation*, IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development), ILC (International Land Coalition), ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), the Land Portal Foundation and RECONCILE (Resource Conflict Institute) co-organised a week-long Learning Route (LR) in September 2017 about reducing conflicts between crop farmers and livestock keepers. The Value Chain Development Project (VCDP) in Nigeria had requested to […]