This declaration, prepared at the meeting of Central Asian pastoralists in July 2015, calls on national governments, international organizations, the United Nations and civil society organizations to consult and include the Central Asian pastoralist network in workshops, conferences, policy processes and programmes that may affect pastoralism in Central Asia.
Year of publication: 2015Organization: Экономическая комиссия для Африки
Topic: Участие
Language: English, Русский
Type of document: Политика и законодательство
Geographical coverage: Центральная Азия
In China, three major rangeland management policies have caused dramatic social, economic, and ecological changes for pastoral regions in the past 30 years: the Rangeland Household Contract Policy (RHCP), Rangeland Ecological Construction Projects (RECPs), and the Nomad Settlement Policy (NSP). The impacts of these policies are greatly debated. This paper conducts a systematic review of academic perspectives on the impacts of the three policies on: the ecosystem, animal husbandry, pastoralist livelihoods, and pastoral society among other rangeland issues. In addition, it systematically reviews the causes of ineffectiveness and negative effects. As these three policy approaches are applied in rangeland management and pastoral development worldwide, this paper may provide useful implications for future policy development in pastoral regions on a global scale.
Year of publication: 2015Organization: Индивидуальные авторы
Topic: Экологические услуги, Земля
Language: English
Type of document: Технический
Geographical coverage: Центральная Азия
This study reveals that there is clear demand from pastoralists and farmers in Malawi and Tanzania for climate information services via radio and mobile phone. Both radio and mobile phones are in common use, and are rated by farmers and pastoralists to have great potential as effective and trusted channels where they can access various climate information services. Rainfall patterns, temperature data and forecasting services – both weekly and daily – were mentioned as particular needs.
Year of publication: 2015Organization:
Topic: Изменение климата, Образование, Быстрая восстанавливаемость
Language: English
Type of document: Технический, Научный
Geographical coverage: Восточная Африка, Южная Африка
The theoretical framework for the scientific understanding of the drylands is almost the opposite today of what was mainstream in the 1970s, but the methodological infrastructure of analytical tools and practices is still catching up. As researchers and practitioners involved in dryland development depend on such infrastructure, they are often in danger of silently reproducing the old theoretical horizon even when manifestly operating in the new one. This is the issue this paper sets out to discuss.
Year of publication: 2015Organization: Международный институт по окружающей среде и развитию
Topic: Быстрая восстанавливаемость
Language: English
Type of document: Научный
Geographical coverage: Глобальный
The major livestock countries in the Sahel (such as Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso) offer little support to the livestock sector, both in proportion to the general State budget and compared to the support provided to crop farming. This brief, produced in partnership with the APESS network, is based mainly on data collected in four countries: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Senegal. In the brief it is argued that the reasons for the paradox between a livestock sector with considerable stakes and (relatively) weak support are many, for instance many decision makers, see herders as affluent populations, meaning their vulnerability to climate hazards is often not considered.
Year of publication: 2015Organization:
Topic: Экономика
Language: English, Français
Type of document: Технический
Geographical coverage: Западная Африка
This publication aims to determine the economic contribution of camel milk to pastoral households in Somali Regional State, in eastern Ethiopia. It also looks at all other value chain actors incolced in the marketing of camel milk, and tries to assess camel milk marketing channels and price margins along the value chain.
The study shows that camel milk makes a substantial economic contribution to pastoralist households and those involved in marketing camel milk, and there is good potential for market-oriented camel dairy development.
Year of publication: 2015Organization: Международный институт по окружающей среде и развитию
Topic: Экономика, Продовольственная безопасность
Language: English
Type of document: Технический
Geographical coverage: Восточная Африка
This book is a challenge to those who see the drylands as naturally vulnerable to food insecurity and poverty. It argues that improving agricultural productivity in dryland environments is possible by working with climatic uncertainty rather than seeking to control it – a view that runs contrary to decades of development practice in arid and semi-arid lands. Across China, Kenya and India – and most other dryland countries – family farmers and herders relate to the inherent variability of the drylands as a resource to be valued, rather than a problem to be avoided. By exploring these vibrant agricultural economies that take advantage of variability, this book inverts longstanding negative views about food security in the drylands.
Year of publication: 2015Organization: Международный институт по окружающей среде и развитию
Topic: Экономика, Продовольственная безопасность, Земля, Быстрая восстанавливаемость
Language: English
Type of document: Технический
Geographical coverage: Глобальный
La présente loi fixe les principes fondamentaux et les règles générales régissant l'aménagement et la gestion des espaces pastoraux et sylvo-pastoraux, l'utilisation et le développement des ressources pastorales, la transhumance pastorale et la mobilité des troupeaux.
Year of publication: 2015Organization: Индивидуальные авторы
Topic: Земля, Организация
Language: Français
Type of document: Политика и законодательство
Geographical coverage: Северная Африка