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Pastoralist mobility underpins resilience, food security, nutrition, and human and animal health. This learning brief presents preliminary findings on strategic mobility and its nutritional benefits to pastoral and agropastoral communities in select sites in Isiolo and Marsabit Counties, Kenya.

Year of publication: 2023
Organization: Individual authors, Tufts University 
Topic: Environmental services
Language: English
Type of document: Policies and legislation
Geographical coverage: Eastern Africa

The Framework for Gender-Responsive Livestock Development was jointly developed with the aim of supporting the planning and implementation of gender-responsive policies, projects and investments related to the development of the livestock sector. It provides an overarching framework to support the formulation of action plans and guidance documents contributing to gender equality and women’s empowerment through livestock development.

Year of publication: 2023
Organization: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), World Bank 
Topic: Gender and youth
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Global

This report explores how climate change can intersect with conflict in South Sudan. Using case studies of Kapoeta and the Mangala-Bor corridor, the report finds that climatic events, such as drought and flooding, remain key contributors to migration and violence, including gender-based violence. To mitigate the effects of climate change on conflict, the report provides conflict-sensitive recommendations for aid agencies and donors operating in both drought and flood-hit areas across the country.

Year of publication: 2023
Organization: Individual authors 
Topic: Climate change, Conflict
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Eastern Africa

This policy brief summarises key learning from the Ward Development Planning model, an innovative approach to local participatory development planning being implemented in Kenya’s drylands.

Year of publication: 2023
Organization: Individual authors 
Topic: Land, Participation
Language: English
Type of document: Policies and legislation
Geographical coverage: Eastern Africa

The purpose of this Sourcebook is to provide advice on how to incorporate disaster risk reduction and resilience building into the watershed management process. As an increasingly heavier toll is exerted on agriculture and food systems by drought, floods, wildfires, and other extreme events, adopting risk reduction and management practices must become an integral part of watershed management. While the steps involved to incorporate resilience building are similar to those routinely carried out in integrated watershed management, this Sourcebook stresses the importance of understanding disaster and climate risks, adopting a landscape approach and targeting vulnerable groups (e.g. women, youth, indigenous people, others) at all stages of planning and implementing watershed management.

Year of publication: 2023
Organization: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 
Topic: Environmental services, Resilience
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Global

Soils contribute to the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals through carbon sequestration. By enhancing soil health and fertility, soils can play a crucial role in climate action, land degradation neutrality, and alleviating hunger. The present study provides a spatially explicit report on the state of grassland soils and can be used as a baseline for future work to explore the impacts of livestock management on soil carbon at regional, country and farm levels. Assessing the current state of grassland systems and their potential to sequester carbon in the soil is of key importance to understanding the trade-offs between grassland services on food security, biodiversity conservation and climate mitigation.

Year of publication: 2023
Organization: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Individual authors 
Topic: Climate change, Environmental services, Land
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Global

The goal of this technical paper is to draw attention to the lessons pastoral systems 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.

Year of publication: 2023
Organization: Individual authors 
Topic: Climate change, Food security
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Global

Despite awareness of the critical roles of rangelands in sustaining livelihoods of pastoralists and ecological safeguarding, rangelands have felt the pressure of habitat fragmentation, land use change, industrialization, enclosure, privatization, militarization, and ecosystem devastation. This international blind peer-review journal, ‘Pastures & Pastoralism’, will contribute to the science, policy and practice across the world by providing a novel platform to seasoned, budding and young scientists, experts and practitioners, including the pastoral community members.

Year of publication: 2023
Organization: Individual authors 
Topic: Climate change, Economy, Environmental services, Food security, Indigenous knowledge, Indigenous peoples, Land, Resilience
Language: English
Type of document: Technical, Scientific, Databases
Geographical coverage: Global
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