Pastoralism & climate resilience: technical paper + policy brief

Based partly on a CELEP webinar on pastoralism and climate change in December 2021, two publications by Saverio Krätli et al. were brought out by GIZ (German Agency for International Cooperation) in 2022:

1. Technical background paper “Pastoralism and resilience of food production in the face of climate change” (20pp)
2. Policy brief “Climate resilience – what can we learn from pastoral systems in Africa’s drylands?” (8pp).

These draw attention to the lessons that pastoral systems can offer in the face of climate change, in particular with regard to the challenge of achieving global resilience to climate variability without depending on unsustainable energy inputs. They aim to provide an understanding of:

• pastoralism as livelihood and food production system specialised in managing and benefitting from variability in climate and natural environments;
• the key factors that support the resilience of pastoral systems, and the role of non-climate stressors in pastoralists’ vulnerability to
  climate hazards; and
• ways of capitalising on these lessons for pastoralism and other livelihood systems in dryland areas and beyond, to address the challenge of sustainably producing food given an unpredictable climate.

Both publications were made in cooperation with CELEP and IYRP2026.

Posted on 3 February 2023 in CELEP Documents, Pastoralism & Climate Change, Pastoralist Livelihoods & Nutrition, Value of Pastoralism