Pastoralism is one of the dominant economies of the Sahel and is by far the main economy on the fringes of the Sahara, a zone that has recently become very unstable. It is estimated that about 50 million people rely on pastoralism for their only or a main part of their livelihood in Sub-Saharan Africa; about half of them are located in the Sahel and the Saharan fringes, and of these about 70 percent are poor. The insecurity and instability in these areas directly lead to increased poverty of already poor pastoralists by interfering with their mobility. Competition over natural resources, especially land, has become an issue of major concern and cause of conflict between the Sahel’s pastoral and farming populations. Over the last several decades, the World Bank’s activities to develop this region have included improving the livelihoods of pastoralists. This note seeks to offer guidance to international, national, and local decision makers on the drivers of conflict and instability that are most related to pastoral communities, as well as possible measures to reduce violence and enhance stability in the Sahel. This note attempts to bring together two dimensions related to development: pastoral livelihoods resilience and conflict analysis.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Всемирный банк
Topic: Конфликт, Быстрая восстанавливаемость
Language: English
Type of document: Технический
Geographical coverage: Западная Африка
The goal of this film is to provide an overview of herders’ traditional ecological knowledge. The herders interviewed are traditional herders who possess a rich knowledge mostly inherited from the family and previous generations, and tested and adapted during their personal life. This film was made for the Regional Assessment for Europe and Central Asia of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). A summary of the herders’ understandings, knowledge and arguments can be found here.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Индивидуальные авторы
Topic: Экологические услуги, Коренные знания
Language: English, Magyar
Type of document: Видео
Geographical coverage: Европа
This report is important for pastoralists as it explicitly mentions pastoralists in the introduction: “The same applies to pastoralist communities. Converting (pastoral areas) to sedentary agriculture evokes the idea that it is a win-win solution: poor people get their land, sometimes even with formal private titles, while the remainder of the pastoralist or shifting cultivation areas are then taken over by the state. Or, entire communities are just as easily relocated, since shifting cultivation and pastoralist fields are often categorized as state-claimed “empty” land."
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Европейский союз
Topic: Земля
Language: English
Type of document: Научный
Geographical coverage: Глобальный
This note seeks to offer guidance to international, national, and local decision makers on the drivers of conflict and instability that are most related to pastoral communities, as well as possible measures to reduce violence and enhance stability in the Sahel. It attempts to bring together two dimensions related to development: pastoral livelihoods resilience and conflict analysis.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Всемирный банк
Topic: Конфликт
Language: English
Type of document: Технический
Geographical coverage: Западная Африка, Центральная Африка
Yak is specially adapted to high-altitude environments and is a flagship species for the Hindu Kush Himalayan region. It plays a key role not only in agrobiodiversity conservation and maintaining high-altitude rangeland ecosystems, but also in cultural traditions and livelihood strategies. But yak are coming under increasing pressure with closed borders and restrictions on grazing and movement, and yak herders are facing immense livelihood challenges.
This volume aims to enhance our understanding of yak in the region by bringing together 14 articles from Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, and Pakistan covering a wide range of subjects related to yak raising in the Hindu Kush Himalayas. It provides valuable insights that will help in developing plans for yak genetic conservation, pastoral development, and management measures to enhance system resilience and the adaptive capacity of local communities to ongoing and potential changes.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Международный центр по комплексному освоению горных районов
Topic: Изменение климата, Экологические услуги, Коренные народы, Быстрая восстанавливаемость
Language: English
Type of document: Технический
Geographical coverage: Центральная Азия, Южная Азия
This catalogue of land use options in Tajikistan is designed for facilitators and community mobilizers to be used in community workshops and at other occasions. The presented land use practices are adapted to the prevailing soil and climate conditions, land use systems and related problems of Tajikistan. The catalogue is also available in Tajik.
Year of publication: 2016Organization:
Topic: Земля
Language: English, тоҷикӣ / تاجیکی
Type of document: Технический
Geographical coverage: Центральная Азия
An extremely dynamic environment compounded by frequent and severe shocks, especially droughts, limit the livelihood opportunities available to millions of households in the fragile drylands of Africa. If the current situation is precarious, the future promises to be even more challenging. This book discusses what should be the focus of the next generation of interventions aimed at enhancing the resilience of vulnerable dryland populations in the face of demographic, economic, environmental, and climatic change.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Всемирный банк
Topic: Экономика, Экологические услуги, Продовольственная безопасность, Быстрая восстанавливаемость
Language: English
Type of document: Технический
Geographical coverage: Западная Африка, Восточная Африка
This study regards two herding/conservation systems (salt steppes and wood-pastures), and developed an inventory on the common/similar and conflicting/different objectives and pasture management practices of herders and conservationists. Extensive land-use often survives in protected areas only, in the form of conservation management. The study suggests a new profession: that of the conservation herder. The conservation herder shall be an individual knowledgeable about herding and pasture management, and trained in conservation and ecology.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Индивидуальные авторы
Topic: Экономика, Экологические услуги
Language: English
Type of document: Научный
Geographical coverage: Европа