Value of Pastoralism (page 3)
Pastoral pathways: Ethiopian lessons for climate-change adaptation
The study report “Pastoral pathways: climate change adaptation lessons from Ethiopia” (2011, 52pp) by Siri Eriksen & Andrei Marin, was published by the Development Fund and the Department of International Environment & Development Studies at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. It seeks to increase knowledge and understanding of key themes of the Development Fund’s […]
Pastoralism & policy course in Uganda
The Karamoja Resilience Support Unit (KRSU) asked the International Institute for Environment & Development (IIED) to run a workshop in 2017 to introduce a pastoralism and policy training course developed for East Africa to a multistakeholder group from Uganda. Workshop participants agreed that the training – if adapted to the Ugandan context – would enable […]
Unjust valuation of pastoralists’ land in Kenya
The Kenyan Government has passed laws that routinely undervalue pastoralists’ land and undermine pastoralism as a system of production and source of livelihood in the drylands. In his article “The unjust valuation of pastoralists’ land in Kenya”, published online in The Elephant on 2 October 2021, Jarso Mokku argues that the substantial contributions of pastoralists […]
Contribution of livestock to Sudanese economy
In the report “The contribution of livestock to the Sudanese economy” (2012, 56pp) commissioned by Inter-Governmental Authority on Development’s Livestock Policy Initiative (IGAD LPI), Roy Behnke & Hala Mohamed Osman assess the contribution of livestock to Sudan’s national economy. Conventional GDP accounting ignores some benefits that people derive from livestock in subsistence-oriented economies, when households […]
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 […]