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This study examines the effects of climate change, drought and decreasing natural resources
amongst mobile populations, specifically pastoralists in the North Eastern and North Rift Valley provinces of Kenya. The study provides an evidence base and proposes programmatic interventions that would be implemented in collaboration with the regional governments and other key players to address conflicts over resources and increased migration to [peri] urban areas.

Year of publication: 2010
Organization: Individual authors, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 
Topic: Climate change, Indigenous peoples
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Eastern Africa

This guide is written for people who want to design and implement a simple rangeland monitoring programme in Eastern Africa. It outlines a series of steps that will enable community members and other land managers to decide what, where, when, and how to monitor, as well as how to interpret and apply the results of their monitoring. The guide introduces a simple set of methods for collecting monitoring data using only a pencil, a stick, and a single datasheet.

Year of publication: 2010
Organization: Individual authors 
Topic: Land
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Eastern Africa

Lessons from West Africa indicate cross-border mobility needs to be addressed within a comprehensive policy, legal and institutional framework that harmonizes national and regional legislation to secure livestock mobility from the local to the regional level. At regional level, the ECOWAS decision agreed in Abuja in October 1998 provides a regional framework for cross-border transhumance between fifteen member states.

Year of publication: 2010
Organization: Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) 
Topic: Conflict, Participation
Language: English
Type of document: Policies and legislation
Geographical coverage: West Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa

Biocultural community protocols are a new approach with great potential for empowering pastoralists and other traditional livestock-keeping communities. They are both a process and a document in which communities invoke their rights as guardians of biological diversity under Article 8j of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity. Claiming rights for in-situ conservation, they also help promote livestock keepers’ rights to maintain their breeds and continue their traditional management practices.

Biocultural community protocols put on record traditional knowledge and the biodiversity that communities steward, in a process that the communities themselves drive. In developing a biocultural community protocol, communities become informed about national and international laws that protect their rights. This book provides an overview of the process as well as its legal background and describes the first experiences with implementing this approach by livestock keepers in Asia and Africa.

Year of publication: 2010
Organization: Local Livestock for Empowerment of Rural People (LIFE Network), League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development (LPP) 
Topic: Indigenous knowledge, Organization, Participation
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Global

This policy brief argues the need for national strategies to guide development actors and help enhance the impact of aid interventions. There is also a need to close the gap between the theory and practice of pastoral development by supporting longer-term investments and programme strategies, ensuring that good practices are adopted, and bridging the gap between development and emergency relief efforts.

Year of publication: 2010
Organization: Overseas Development Institute (ODI) 
Topic: Food security
Language: English
Type of document: Technical, Policies and legislation
Geographical coverage: Eastern Africa

The study explores how strengthening the resilience of African livestock systems to climate change, and making current investments to improve African livestock coping mechanisms, can improve the climate resilience of small-holder farmers and pastoralists. The study was implemented in 2009 through two sub-regional reviews (one in eastern and southern Africa, the second in West and Central Africa), six country visits (Kenya, Namibia, Malawi, Cameroon, Niger and Mali), and an e-conference.

Year of publication: 2010
Organization: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) 
Topic: Climate change, Food security, Innovation, Resilience
Language: English
Type of document: Technical, Policies and legislation
Geographical coverage: West Africa, Central Africa, Eastern Africa

There is new interest and willingness to look afresh at how formal schooling can become compatible with pastoralism. It is becoming clear that Education for All requires a re-thinking of how pastoralists make a living and thus how formal education fits. Pastoralism is and will remain the main economic driver in most dryland regions of Africa, and is important also in semi-arid areas and mountainous highland regions in South Asia. This document presents the problem of the school-based model of formal education and discusses inclusive approaches to pastoral education. 

Year of publication: 2010
Organization: Individual authors 
Topic: Education
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Global

Niche marketing can provide opportunities for sustainable production in marginal areas and can improve the livelihoods of livestock keepers and people involved in the processing and trade of products. It may especially benefit women and the poor. It can also be a tool for conserving breeds. This book describes eight cases from Africa, Asia and Latin America where outside interventions have attempted to develop markets for specialty products from local breeds. The book describes various approaches to exploiting a niche market and gives recommendations how to do it.

Year of publication: 2010
Organization: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Local Livestock for Empowerment of Rural People (LIFE Network), League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development (LPP) 
Topic: Economy, Value addition
Language: English, Français, Español
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Global