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Following years of conflict and national policies aimed at encouraging sedentarization of pastoral populations, international and bilateral actors are increasingly shifting their focus towards supporting animal production systems. This report reviews the state of animal-based livelihoods in the Karamoja region of northeastern Uganda and examines how animal ownership affects a household’s ability to weather shocks. 

Year of publication: 2016
Organization: Feinstein International Center 
Topic: Conflict, Resilience
Language: English
Type of document: Technical, Scientific
Geographical coverage: Eastern Africa

It is extremely challenging to obtain reliable information on transient pastoral livestock populations wandering across extensive rangelands in search of seasonally available pasture. These Guidelines offer guidance on enumerating livestock through ground and aerial surveys, using input from 9 country case-studies. It is a reference document providing technical and operational guidance on various aspects of the data collection process, with particular attention being paid to developing countries.

Year of publication: 2016
Organization: Individual authors 
Topic: Economy, Organization, Participation, Resilience, Value addition
Language: English
Type of document: Scientific
Geographical coverage: Global

This video prepared by the Green Gold project is about the rangeland use agreement between herders and the local government in Mongolia. 

Year of publication: 2016
Organization: Individual authors 
Topic: Land
Language: English, Монгол
Type of document: Videos
Geographical coverage: Central Asia

Le lait cru du Niger n’est que très faiblement valorisé, du fait de la très forte saisonnalité de la production et d’un réseau de commercialisation peu développé, alors que les besoins urbains sont importants et en constante augmentation. Le projet Nariindu a permis de développer une solution innovante de centre de collecte paysans multi-services, de 2012 à 2015. C’est un chaînon manquant de la filière lait locale qui a ainsi pu être mis en place : les centres offrent aux éleveurs du conseil et des intrants pour améliorer la santé des troupeaux et la qualité du lait (aliment en priorité, mais également soins vétérinaires, etc.) ; les éleveurs payent ces services avec le lait, qui leur fourni par ailleurs une source de revenus régulière. 

Year of publication: 2016
Organization: Institute for Research and Implementation of Development Methods (IRAM) 
Topic: Economy
Language: Français
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: West Africa

This manual complements the Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS) handbook by providing technical information on interventions such as feed and water distribution, destocking, provision of shelter or rebuilding the asset base post-disasters.

Year of publication: 2016
Organization: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 
Topic: Conflict, Resilience
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Global

The aims of this paper are to share experiences and lessons learned from advocating pastoralism and improving the voice of pastoralists in policy-making processes in Ethiopia through a specific activity and process – namely the Ethiopian Pastoralist Day.

Year of publication: 2016
Organization: Pastoralist Forum Ethiopia 
Topic: Participation
Language: English
Type of document: Scientific
Geographical coverage: Eastern Africa

This summary report documents the results of the workshop  convened by the African Union Commission    AUC) from 29  June - 01 July 2016 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The workshop was  organized  under  the  theme  “Resilience and adaptation  to  drought conditions and pastoralists systems in Africa” and was attended by  representatives  of  the  AUC,  Regional  Economic  Communities,  representatives  from  pastoralist and farmer organisations,  national  governments and civil society organizations.

The workshop highlighted the need to cascade the Policy Framework for Pastoralism in  Africa at national level with a greater coordination on the continent and within regions. This  calls for establishment of a mechanism in place by the African Union Commission to assess  the progress, address challenges and take advantage of the opportunities it presents. 

Year of publication: 2016
Organization: The African Union – Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR) 
Topic: Organization, Resilience
Language: English
Type of document: Technical, Policies and legislation
Geographical coverage: North Africa, West Africa, Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa

This paper aims to analyse how land tenure regimes of pastoralist societies living in the Andean altiplano have transformed over the last 50 years. It also discusses the implications of these transformations for the sustainability of resource management in these areas.

Year of publication: 2016
Organization: Evidence and lessons from Latin America (ELLA) 
Topic: Land
Language: English, Español
Type of document: Technical, Scientific
Geographical coverage: Latin America