The Pastoralist Knowledge Hub presents its unique bottom-up approach on the sidelines of the Committee on Agriculture meeting
Pastoralists are actively adapting to adverse climate, market and policy conditions, and are best placed to respond to the threats facing their livelihood and environment. Still the role of communities in identifying thier own needs, challenges and solutions is undermined....

Nigeria’s central Middle Belt region is home to a diverse cultural population of semi-nomadic cattle herders and farming communities. For decades, the region has experienced increasingly violent attacks that have been partially attributed to direct competition over access and use...

FAO-ICR organize a meeting on 'Improving governance of the global pastoralist civil society network'
While pastoralist voices have historically been excluded from policy processes, they are now increasingly contributing to global, regional, and national policy processes and creating a space for inclusive representation. The World Alliance for Mobile and Indigenous Peoples (WAMIP), the global...

New evidence that early interventions reduced the impacts of 2017 drought in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia
26 July 2018, Rome – Intervening early in countries predicted to be hit by natural disasters can prevent threats from becoming humanitarian emergencies, or can mitigate their impacts, according to a new reportreleased by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today. For...

UNESCO’s Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems programme convened an African expert meeting on indigenous knowledge and climate change in Nairobi, Kenya, 27 and 28 June 2018. African indigenous pastoralists groups, meteorologists and policy specialists from West and East Africa and...