FAO.org

The purpose of this booklet is to illustrate how the idea of scenario planning is being used to help pastoralists in Africa manage uncertainty and change. It is written with community development workers primarily in mind - for those who may be interested in facilitating scenario planning with communities and wish to know more about it. It describes the process involved and discusses the benefits, challenges and implications of the approach.

Year of publication: 2009
Organization: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) 
Topic: Climate change, Conflict, Education, Innovation, Organization, Participation, Resilience
Language: English, Français
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: North Africa, West Africa, Central Africa, Eastern Africa

This open access, interdisciplinary and peer-reviewed online journal featuring over 130 articles investigates extensive livestock production systems throughout the world. It publishes research that influences public policy to improve the welfare of pastoralists and better conserve the environments in which they live. 

Year of publication: 2009
Organization: Individual authors 
Topic: Climate change, Conflict, Economy, Education, Environmental services, Finance, Food security, Gender and youth, Healthcare, Indigenous knowledge, Indigenous peoples, Innovation, Land, Organization, Participation, Resilience, Social services, Value addition
Language: English
Type of document: Scientific
Geographical coverage: Global

This film is made by Maasai pastoralists, living near Oltepesi in Kenya, in March 2009. It documents the devastating impacts of a seemingly endless drought across the region that killed livestock and people, threatened livelihoods and caused wide-spread suffering to many of the indigenous pastoralist communities. Nomadic pastoralists, like the Maasai, face tremendous pressures on their traditional way of life from other groups, their own government, and now climate change. Yet, their traditions and knowledge make them more adaptable than most. 

Year of publication: 2009
Organization: Individual authors 
Topic: Climate change
Language: English
Type of document: Videos
Geographical coverage: Eastern Africa

This study examines the changes undergone by Misseriyya pastoralists over the past two decades, charting the strategies employed by the group to cope with a number of external pressures ranging from adverse government policies, climatic changes, the impact of oil exploration, conflict and the effects of the Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement. The current political context and the causes of intercommunal and other tensions are analysed and used to inform policy and programme recommendations for a range of actors working in the region. The report offers a detailed review of past and current aid interventions in support of Misseriyya livelihoods.

Year of publication: 2009
Organization: Overseas Development Institute (ODI) 
Topic: Climate change, Conflict, Economy, Food security, Indigenous peoples
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Eastern Africa

The paper reports on a “University of the Bush“ seminar held in the Borana area in March 2009, where over 50 pastoralists from southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya from several ethnic groups debated key pastoral development issues and the question of innovation in pastoral systems. 

Year of publication: 2009
Organization: Future Agricultures Consortium 
Topic: Innovation
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Eastern Africa

This film shows the role of pastoralists in conserving biodiversity and visually transports policymakers into the situation of pastoralists.

Year of publication: 2009
Organization: League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development (LPP) 
Topic: Environmental services, Indigenous peoples
Language: English
Type of document: Videos
Geographical coverage: South Asia

This guide is designed to help communities and policy-makers at local and national levels make informed choices regarding land use, business ventures, and public policy in pastoral areas, particularly the Maasai Steppe and other semi-arid parts of East Africa.

Formerly nomadic herders are settling and becoming agro-pastoralists, and subsistence and commercial farmers are plowing the rangeland that sustained both livestock and wildlife. Conflicts are emerging between farmers and herders; wildlife and people; newcomers and traditionalists.

The guide is intended for practitioners working on participatory natural resource use and management. It will be useful for district and village officers, the private sector and government representatives, NGOs and development agencies involved in the processes of land-use planning and natural resource management.

Year of publication: 2009
Organization: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 
Topic: Conflict, Environmental services, Land, Organization, Participation
Language: English, Kiswahili
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Eastern Africa

This report reviews the causes, scale, consequences of, and responses to pastoral conflicts in the border region of Kenya, Sudan, and Uganda, utilizing methodological tools such as key informant interviews, retrospective analysis, and a thorough review of available literature.

Year of publication: 2009
Organization: Individual authors 
Topic: Conflict
Language: English
Type of document: Scientific
Geographical coverage: Eastern Africa