Pastoralists move their livestock with the seasons, in search of good pasture across the drylands. Recent droughts in Africa are making decision makers question the viability of pastoralism, particularly in the face of future climate variability and change. But their fears are founded on misconceptions.
Organization: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Topic: Conflict, Food security
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Global
The Self-evaluation and Holistic Assessment of Climate Resilience of Farmers and Pastoralists (SHARP) enables smallholder farmers and pastoralists to assess their own climate resilience. Developed by FAO in collaboration with external partners, it also provides key data to help scientists and policy-makers in their efforts to reduce the risks associated with climate change.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Topic: Climate change, Resilience
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Global
Bulletins d’information du Projet Régional d’Appui au Pastoralisme au Sahel
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Permanent Interstates Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS)
Topic: Economy, Environmental services, Food security, Participation, Social services
Language: Français
Type of document: Newletters
Geographical coverage: West Africa
Bulletins des entretiens du Projet Régional d’Appui au Pastoralisme au Sahel
- N° 01 - 15 mars 2016 - La gestion durable des parcours dans le sahel : Stratégies, pratiques, gouvernance et promotion (15 au 17 mars 2016 à Dakar)
- N°02 - 16 mars 2016 - Un rendez-vous annuel de partage de connaissances en vue de soutenir le développement du pastoralisme dans le Sahel
Organization: Permanent Interstates Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS)
Topic: Economy, Environmental services, Participation
Language: Français
Type of document: Technical, Newletters
Geographical coverage: West Africa
La note de cadrage thématique de la 1ère édition des Entretiens Techniques du Projet Régional d’Appui au Pastoralisme au Sahel (PRAPS) portera sur « La Gestion durable des parcours dans le Sahel : stratégies, pratiques, gouvernance et promotion ». Son objectif est de partager les connaissances et expériences en matière de stratégies et de pratiques relatives à la problématique de la gestion des ressources naturelles et pastorales, et envisager le futur de la gestion durable des parcours dans le Sahel.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Permanent Interstates Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS)
Topic: Environmental services, Land, Participation
Language: Français
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: West Africa, Central Africa
This article looks at the restoration programmes in four cross-border regions of the Great Green Wall: Bankass in Mali; Dori and Djibo in Burkina Faso; and Tera in the Niger. It focuses on the restoration model, with the planting of environmentally well-adapted and economically useful local plant species in agrosylvopastoral systems, including tree, shrub and herbaceous species.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Topic: Environmental services
Language: English, Français, Español
Type of document: Scientific
Geographical coverage: West Africa
These reports detail evidence and data of long-term changes in the drylands of Eastern Africa and the implications of these for efforts to strengthen resilience within pastoral systems. A new framework and approach - Pastoralist Livelihood Systems Analysis - has been used to analyse the dynamics and impacts of change over time in five pastoral systems in the region: the Somali zone of Ethiopia, the Borana Plateau in southern Ethiopia, the South Rift Valley in Kenya, the Karamoja region of Uganda, and Bahr al Ghazal in South Sudan. The studies are based on a review of over 400 scholarly and grey literature reports, as well as assessment of over 100 data-sets from the region.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Individual authors
Topic: Resilience
Language: English
Type of document: Scientific
Geographical coverage: Eastern Africa
This publication reviews how land tenure practices are evolving in pastoralist societies, in the face of a series of challenges. It draws particularly on a comparative study of the Andean altiplano and the East African savannah, to identify land tenure policies that enhance the sustainability of pastoral productive systems.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Evidence and lessons from Latin America (ELLA)
Topic: Land
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Global