Value of Pastoralism (page 4)
CELEP annual report for 2020
The report on CELEP activities in 2020 is structured according to the action plan drawn up in the Annual General Meeting (AGM) in 2019. However, because of COVID-19, several events were postponed to 2021 or transformed into online events, such as the six webinars and the virtual AGM in late 2020. Shortly before the pandemic […]
Accounting for pastoralists, also in Kenya & Uganda
Pastoralists are important for food production, ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation and maintaining landscapes. They practise a sustainable, low-carbon, animal-welfare-friendly way of livestock production. To put the livestock sector on a sustainable trajectory, it is necessary to support such systems in favour over other livestock-production systems that are less beneficial. As the UNEP gap analysis clearly […]
UN Committee on Agriculture approves IYRP
UN Committee on Agriculture approves International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists The initiative for an International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP) has taken a huge step forward. In the online meeting this week of the Committee on Agriculture (COAG) of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Mongolian Government presented its proposal to declare […]
Pastoralists as reliability professionals
The working paper “A new policy narrative for pastoralism? Pastoralists as reliability professionals and pastoralist systems as infrastructure” by Emery Roe (2020, 33pp) proposes that pastoralist systems are better treated, in aggregate, as a global critical infrastructure. The policy and management implications that follow differ importantly from current pastoralist policies and recommendations. A multi-typology framework […]
Pastoral development and policy environment in Ethiopia
The 3-page brief “Pastoral development pathways in Ethiopia: the policy environment and critical constraints” by Mohamed Yimer, Arba Minch University, Ethiopia, was written as a contribution to the Global Sustainable Development Report in 2015. It addresses issues of pastoralist livelihood vulnerability and challenges in the light of the policy environment for pastoralism in Ethiopia. The […]