This publication presents the availability, access and utilization of crop residues and agro-industrial by-products in West Africa. It contributes to the efforts to strengthen mechanisms to establish and maintain feed assessments in West Africa. National feed assessments in a country build and improve resilience in its livestock production, support the formulation and implementation of livestock policies and programmes for sustainable livestock production, contribute to the use of appropriate feeding strategies, and respond to the impact of floods and drought.
Year of publication: 2014Organization: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Topic: Value addition
Language: English, Français
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: West Africa
This film shows views of pastoralists' representatives on pastoralism as a sustainable form of livelihood. They expressed their views during the Global Pastoralists' Gathering held in Kiserian Kenya from 9th to 15th December 2013.
Year of publication: 2014Organization: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Topic: Organization, Participation
Language: English
Type of document: Videos
Geographical coverage: Global
Ethiopia is one of the 16 countries implementing the Global Financing for Gender Equality programme whose main objective is to increase the volume and effective use of aid and domestic resources to implement national commitments to gender equality and women’s empowerment (GE/WE). This Preliminary Gender Profile was undertaken to provide an indicative status of the level of gender equality in Ethiopia; propose recommendations on key gaps and emerging trends, and propose areas of focus for a comprehensive gender profile.
Year of publication: 2014Organization: Individual authors
Topic: Gender and youth
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Eastern Africa
This article addresses the politics and practices of natural resource rights with a view to environmental justice. Struggles over identity politics at different geographical scales have become important mediators of claims for justice with respect to resource rights. Analyses of identity-based claims for environmental justice have usually focused on the indigenous peoples’ movement. This article focuses on the emerging global pastoralists’ movement. In recent years, mobile pastoralists have begun to carve out new global spaces, through which diverse groups have tried to negotiate common ground and forge common identities in their struggles for justice. They have become increasingly visible in nature conservation politics and in contests over land rights, claiming to be “custodians of the commons” in an era of global climatic change. The paper draws on empirical work amongst pastoralists, NGOs and activists from Kenya, Mongolia and Spain to explore these identities, their implications for resource rights, and the chains of accountability and legitimacy between global activists and local pastoralists.
Year of publication: 2013Organization: Individual authors
Topic: Environmental services
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Europe, Eastern Africa, Central Asia
December 9th to 15th 2013: 120 pastoralist leaders representing communities in 48 countries worldwide gathered in Kiserian, Kenya, to share experiences and concerns about the Global Transition to a Green Economy. Pastoralism—the extensive production of livestock in rangeland ecosystems—is one of the most environmental friendly food systems on earth, but its potential to provide meat, milk and fibre as well as environmental services, such as climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation and protection of water sheds, is continuously eroded by poorly conceived policies and investments, by neglectof basic human rights, and by disruption to appropriate rangeland management practices, including mobility.
Year of publication: 2013Organization: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
Topic: Participation
Language: English, Français, Español
Type of document: Policies and legislation
Geographical coverage: Global
This policy brief discusses how to best support women’s empowerment and gender equity. It concludes that interventions need to be start with pastoral women themselves. Empowerment is more sustainable when it comes from within. Women’s place and role in the pastoral communities needs to be understood and acknowledged. What empowerment means for pastoral women should influence how this is supported and achieved. The right institutional frameworks and supporting mechanisms are vital to support women’s empowerment.
Year of publication: 2013Organization: Coalition Of European Lobbies For Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Topic: Gender and youth
Language: English
Type of document: Technical, Policies and legislation
Geographical coverage: Global
The real measure of success in the work that FAO does, is how effectively they help the most needy to live free of hunger, in better health and with stronger livelihoods. In 2013, FAO worked in north-eastern Uganda to explore how the concept of One Health can be implemented at the community level. This video highlights the work that the FAO team together with villagers, district health, agriculture and wildlife officials, and national decision-makers did to improve delivery of health services for pastoralists and their livestock. They identified brucellosis, a bacterial disease causing human suffering and livestock production losses, and took steps to assist in preventing this disease. Most importantly, the video shows how One Health teams can listen carefully to community members, both in setting health priorities and determining the best ways to help the community to improve their lives and livelihoods.
Year of publication: 2013Organization: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Topic: Food security, Healthcare, Resilience
Language: English
Type of document: Videos
Geographical coverage: Eastern Africa
This report highlights the importance of pastoralist livestock mobility for the resilience of pastoralist livelihood systems and for maximising productivity. Tufts and partners monitored camel, sheep and cattle herds for up to five months in Darfur and Kordofan regions of Sudan. Using mixed methods and GPS tracking the study recorded in detail herd movements and management strategies in response to environmental parameters (the advancing rains and greening up of vegetation). The study highlights a diverse range of modernising trends and livelihood adaptations, including for example diversified investment strategies, herder responses to inter-tribal conflict in East Darfur and conflict avoidance strategies. Local case-studies present new evidence of a distinctive pastoralist approach to natural resource management that regulates access to natural resources rather than seeking to control numbers of animals. Not all trends are positive, and thus need to be analysed so as to support the positive while mitigating potential negative consequences.
A Policy Brief of the report can be found here.
Year of publication: 2013Organization: Feinstein International Center
Topic: Conflict, Economy, Environmental services, Food security
Language: English
Type of document: Policies and legislation
Geographical coverage: Eastern Africa