Value of Pastoralism (page 4)
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 […]
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 […]