Value of Pastoralism (page 9)
From emergency to development through livestock-based interventions
The policy paper “From emergency to development: building resilience through livestock-based interventions” (8pp, 2018), brought out by Vétérinaires Sans Frontières (VSF) International, describes how disasters affect livestock-based livelihoods, and summarises the types of interventions available for mitigating their impacts and building resilience. It brings examples of how VSF is putting Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards […]
Contribution of livestock to Ugandan economy
A briefing paper of the IGAD Center for Pastoralist Areas & Livestock Development assesses “The contribution of livestock to the Ugandan economy” (2013, 4pp). The study assigns monetary values to the non-marketed goods and services provided by livestock, and estimates the contribution of livestock to the wider national economy – as exports, as inputs into […]
Contribution of livestock to Kenyan economy
According to the IGAD Center for Pastoralist Areas & Livestock Development, the contribution of livestock production to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been greatly underestimated in Kenya. The policy brief “The contribution of livestock to the Kenyan economy” (2013, 4pp) estimates that livestock provide about 45% of output from the country’s agriculture and forestry […]
Water & fodder availability along animal trade routes in the Horn
The livestock export trade from the Horn of Africa (HoA) to the Middle East is one of the largest export movements and among the oldest and most vibrant cross-border livestock trading systems in the world. A project of FAO seeks to assist pastoralists, traders and exporters to enhance the competitiveness of the trade and to […]
Pastoralism and its future
As part of a project exploring the impact of climate change on food security and livelihoods of small-scale family farmers in Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Zimbabwe, IRIN published a “factfile” entitled “Pastoralism and its future” (October 2017). In the drylands, the extreme variations in weather mean that pastoralists have to be highly adaptive and deploy […]