March 22, 2011 / News
A Rapid Livelihoods and Conflict Analysis in Mieso-Mulu Woreda, Shinile Zone, Somali Region, Ethiopia By Andy Catley and Alula Iyasu
March 19, 2011 / CAADP
Edited by Kate Wellard Technology – seeds, breeds, fertility inputs, disease control, water management – is key to getting agriculture moving. Major investments have been made to support technology development and transfer, but impacts have been patchy. Lessons from across
March 19, 2011 / CAADP
Edited by Kate Wellard Agricultural growth is critical to reducing poverty and hunger. But even in Asia, where the Green Revolution drove economic development and reduced hunger, it is clear that growth alone is not sufficient to eliminate hunger and
March 19, 2011 / CAADP
Edited by Kate Wellard Accelerated growth in agriculture is critical to meeting the MDGs in Africa. Intensification and commercialisation of smallholder agriculture are seen by many governments and international agencies as the principal means of delivering this. However market-based approaches
March 19, 2011 / CAADP
Edited by Kate Wellard Agriculture is the mainstay of most African economies. Millions of smallholders depend on farming for their livelihoods, it underpins food security and poverty alleviation efforts, and supports wider economic development. But agricultural growth has generally been
March 19, 2011 / CAADP
Land and Livelihoods: Securing Broad-based Sustainable Growth Edited by Kate Wellard Land is central to sustainable development. Agriculture and other land-based activities underpin most rural people’s livelihoods strategies. With investment in appropriate technologies, sustainable management and the right land policies,
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
Declining Grazing Resources, Pastoralist Innovations and the Changing Political Economy of The Orma Pastoralists, Tana Delta, Kenya By Abdirizak Arale Nunow
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
By Stephen Sanford There is much land in pastoral areas of the Horn of Africa that could be converted to irrigated agriculture and thus provide an alternative or additional livelihood for pastoralists. There is a long history of successful indigenous
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
By Getachew Gebru and Solomon Desta Borana people whose animals die and who lose their sources of livelihood are forced to exit the pastoral system. Others also exit the system looking for a better livelihood option. Those that painfully exit the
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
Impact assessment of the Save the Children USA LEAP Health Program, Afdher and Dolobay Woredas, Somali Region, Ethiopia BY Gezu Bekele, Andy Catley, Alison Napier and Adrian Cullis The Somali Region in eastern Ethiopia is one of the least developed
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
Conflicts of Values and Interests: The Lost Opportunity to Conserve a Productive Landscape of Wildlife and Pastoralism By Charles Muchunguzi andArthur Mugisha and Mark Infield Ankole Nshara rangelands lying in a rain shadow between Lake Victoria and Karinzu forests in mid
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
By Charles Muchunguzi and Martin R. Doornbos Recent trends in the Uganda cattle corridor point to the emergence of growing phenomenon of land speculation and accumulation by a group of affluent and influential pastoralists and other livestock keepers. Economic, political
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
Structural and procedural properties important in promoting bio-enterprises as alternative livelihoods to pastoral and agro-pastoral livelihoods By Chinwe Ifejika Speranza and Susie Wrend Alternative livelihoods to pastoral and agro-pastoral livelihoods are increasingly gaining attention in rural development but few empirical
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
By Charles Muchunguzi and Martin R. Doornbos Recent trends in the Uganda cattle corridor point to the emergence of growing phenomenon of land speculation and accumulation by a group of affluent and influential pastoralists and other livestock keepers. Economic, political
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
By David Nkedianye The future of Pastoralism in Africa will depend on a number of key factors that are social-cultural, biophysical, economic and policy-related in nature within local and international confines. Within countries, policies to mitigate climate change, ensure mobility,
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
Health and Nutritional Consequences of Pastoral Sedentarization for Rendille Children in Northern Kenya By Elliot Fratkin This paper describes the findings of a three-year study in the 1990s comparing levels of child malnutrition and illness between five Rendille communities ranging
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
Seeking Alternative Strategies: Settled Pastoralists as Farmers, Town Dwellers, Wage Earners, and Traders By Elliot Fratkin Seeking alternative livelihoods is not a new phenomenon as pastoralists have historically maintained ties with farming and urban communities, often with members of their own
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
By Fiona Flintan ‘Change’ in pastoral areas and societies is occurring at an unprecedented pace. Pastoral women and men experience such change in different ways, and have different capacities to transform it into positive and/or negative impacts. Many women in
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
By John G. Galaty Is there a future for pastoralists in Africa? The modernizers seem to feel the answer is ‘no’, but as long as there are rangelands, mainly suitable for animal production, conditions will make continued highly mobile husbandry
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
Dealing with Risk and Uncertainty: A case study of Karrayu Communities in Upper Awash Valley, Ethiopia By Girum Getachew and Detlef Müller-Mahn Karrayu pastoralist communities have exhibited livelihood changes over the past half a century. These changes have been triggered
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
By Ruhangawebare Godfrey, Mpairwe Denis, Mutetikka David, Bashaasha Bernard and Jorgen Madsen Although livestock production has been identified in the Development Strategy and Investment Plan as a key sector to improve household incomes and food security, cattle sector has not
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
By Hubert Ouedraogo In the last decade land reform in pastoral areas has gathered pace across Africa. From the Code Rurale in West African states to village land use planning in Tanzania, policy and legislation has taken positive steps towards
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
By John Morton There is some evidence that companies, both multinational and African, operating from motivations that can be very broadly labelled “Corporate Social Responsibility”, can make contributions to pastoral development – or at the very least that useful development
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
Changing Circumstances, Flexibility and Adjustments: The case of the Hawawir in Northern Sudan By Kjersti Larsen This paper explores the emergence of small towns or settlements in pastoral areas and how both new forms of social, economic and spatial organization as
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
In Eastern Niger, the Diffa region, cross border with Chad and Nigeria, offers a wide ethnic and ecological variety – from the Sahara desert North to the Lake Chad South. Diverse groups of mobile pastoralists – Arabs, Fulanis, WoDaaBe, Tubus,
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
Au Niger oriental, la région de Diffa, zone frontalière avec le Tchad et le Nigeria, présente une très forte diversité humaine et écologique – du désert du Sahara au nord aux rives du lac Tchad au sud. Différents groupes de
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
By Munzoul Assal One of the basic factors in conflict between pastoralists and farmers and among pastoralists in Western Sudan is land tenure system. This is the case in Darfur especially where land and ethnic boundaries correspond. The land tenure
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
By Mustafa Babiker The central drylands of Sudan have been the home to various forms of mobile pastoralism for centuries. Pastoral mobility is an ecological necessity dictated by the extreme temporal and spatial variability rainfall in these areas. However, pastoral
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
By Opportuna Kweka Maasai Pastoral economy has diversified due to loss of their livestock. However, this is taken as a positive change by conservationists and developmentalists who for many years have viewed Maasai as conservative, resistant to change and their
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
By Paul Goldsmith This paper explores how the political economy of the eastern Horn of Africa region (Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia) is influencing changes in pastoralist conflict. The research design is based on a macro-micro approach. Pastoralist conflict has been
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
By Gufu Oba Ever since the 1982 Nairobi conference on the “future of the nomadic peoples” a good deal of research into different aspects of Pastoralism has produced some valuable results. Yet, after nearly three decades, there is as much
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
By Ericksen, P., Thornton, P.K., Ayantunde, A., Herrero, M., Said, M., de Leeuw, J. Managing climate variability and climate risk is at the heart of pastoralism. The consequences and implications of climate change are therefore of paramount importance to pastoral
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
Replacing Pastoralism with Irrigated Agriculture in the Awash Valley, North-Eastern Ethiopia: Counting the Costs By R. Behnke and C. Kerven About half of the irrigated land in Ethiopia lies in the Awash Valley. The bulk of this land was once
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
Economic empowerment for pastoralist women in the Horn of Africa: Comparative reflections on policy and practice. By Everse Ruhindi This paper discusses PENHA’s experience with women’s economic empowerment projects in pastoral areas of Uganda, Somaliland and Sudan, and presents insights
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
By Saverio Krätli Global progress towards Education For All (EFA) is leaving pastoralists in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia far behind despite of their growing desire for formal education. The dominant strategy of formal education provision, the ‘classroom’ model, routinely
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
Multiple dimensions of pastoral conflict over land and territory within the Afar region of Ethiopia By Simone Rettberg This presentation deals with the structural causes, impacts and mutual linkages of different violent conflicts between pastoral groups within the geopolitically important Afar
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
“Diversification, Experimentation, and Adaptation: Pastoralists in Communal Governance of Resources and livelihoods Strategies” By Stephen Santamo Moiko Pastoral societies in Africa have progressively faced conditions of diminishing production resources, as territories and pasturelands are diverted for purposes of conservation, settlement,
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
By Yasin Abdalla Eltayeb Elhadary Land in pastoral communities is considered as highly valuable entity, it is not just a mean of livelihood but also a source of wealth, tribal identity, social peace, and also source of conflicts. This implies
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
Though it remains one of the most economically deprived sub-regions in the world, the Sub-Saharan Africa score highest on the number of countries involved in violent ethnic conflicts around the world. Due to the legacy of colonialism, several ethnic groups
March 18, 2011 / Abstracts
By Yohannes GebreMichael,Saidou Magagi,Wolfgang Bayer & Ann Waters-Bayer An exploratory study was made in Ethiopia and Niger into pastoralists’ responses to climate change. It examined technical and institutional innovations developed by pastoralists to adapt to new conditions. It identified a
March 18, 2011 / News
By Paul Goldsmith Conflict is a form of disorder intrinsic to developmental processes. The impacts of violent conflict on economy and governance represent both a set of costs and specific indicators of serious problems on different levels of the system.
March 18, 2011 / Future of Pastoralism - Presentations
Elliot Fratkin PhD Smith College MA USA Martha A. Nathan MD Baystate Health Center and Tufts School of Medicine Eric Abella RothPhD University of Victoria CA
March 18, 2011 / News
By Elliot Fratkin, Martha Nathan, and Eric A. Roth The seeking of alternative livelihoods by former pastoralists is not a new phenomenon in East Africa, as many nomadic livestock keeping people have historically utilized ties with foraging, farming and more
March 18, 2011 / News
Certification dispositifs and land conflicts: the case of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) By Laura Silva Castañeda The expansion of oil palm plantations in Indonesia, the largest producer of palm oil in the world, has generated a huge
March 18, 2011 / News
By Eric Holt-Giménez, Yi Wang and Annie Shattuck Introduction: Detroit, Michigan, the former Paris of the Midwest, is ground zero of the U.S. recession. Detroit is also a flashpoint for the northern food justice movement. There are over 300 community
March 18, 2011 / News
Negotiating Carbon Concessions in Developing Countries: Issues of Capacity, Confidentiality & Corruption By Kyla Tienhaara and Wynet Smith Introduction: In 2008, John Vidal wrote an article in the Guardian newspaper entitled ‘The great green land grab’, in which he discussed the
March 18, 2011 / News
Land grabbing and share of the value added in agricultural processes. A new look at the distribution of land revenues By H. Cochet and M. Merlet This article discusses one aspect of the land grabbing phenomenon that has been little
March 18, 2011 / News
Agrarian structure, foreign land ownership, and land price in Brazil (Dinâmica fundiária e apropriação de terra por estrangeiros no Brasil) By Sérgio Sauer and Sergio Pereira Leite The recent world “rush for farmland” has made Latin America, in general, and Brazil
March 18, 2011 / News
“How come that others are selling our land?” – Customary Land Rights, Rural Livelihoods and Foreign Land Acquisition in the Case of a UK-based Forestry Company in Tanzania By Martina Locher Reports on transnational land acquisitions raise concerns about local
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