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“The Karamoja Pastoralist” magazine by Karamoja Development Forum
“The Karamoja Pastoralist” magazine is a biannual publication supported by the Karamoja Development Forum (KDF). In this first publication, numerous subjects are being addressed, ranging from the establishment of a Pastoralist Information Centre to a field visit of Members of European Parliament to Karamoja, and articles on cross-border pastoralism, conflict and resilience.
CFS43: Understanding mobile pastoralism to prevent conflict
CELEP partner COPACSO (Coalition of Pastoralist Civil Society Organisations) from Uganda provided one of the six panellists who spoke at the side event “Pastoralism, conflict, land and food security in Africa in the face of climate change” organised by the FAO Pastoralist Knowledge Hub in October 2016 during the 43rd meeting of the Committee on […]
Securing pastoralists’ land-tenure rights
As part of a project to promote sustainable pastoralism, supported by IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development), Véterinaires Sans Frontières (VSF) made a survey of enabling policies and pastoralist practices in several areas of the world, including the Horn of Africa. One output of this study is the article “Securing pastoralists’ land tenure rights” (2016, […]
Samburu perspectives on disaster, identity and landscape
The paper “Dust people: Samburu perspectives on disaster, identity and landscape” published in the Journal of Eastern African Studies 10 (1): 168–188 (2016) discusses the Samburu term ntoror, meaning a place that attracts division and fighting. This term brings together ideas about pastoralist landscapes that inherently attract conflict and place-based identities derived from environmental and […]
Nutritional impacts of violence in pastoralist groups in N Kenya
Ethnographers and epidemiological scientists studied the consequences of endemic violence among Pokot, Samburu and Turkana pastoralists in Northern Kenya. In the article “Comparative nutritional indicators as markers for resilience: the impacts of low-intensity violence among three pastoralist communities of northern Kenya” published in the Journal of Eastern African Studies 10 (1): 150–167 (2016), they examine […]