This policy brief summarises key learning from the Ward Development Planning model, an innovative approach to local participatory development planning being implemented in Kenya’s drylands.
Year of publication: 2023Organization: Individual authors
Topic: Land, Participation
Language: English
Type of document: Policies and legislation
Geographical coverage: Eastern Africa
In the face of climate and economic uncertainty, reframing the narrative to better include pastoralism in development policy is paramount for creating sustainable and equitable food systems. In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, this was core to the conversation as policymakers, public officials, pastoralist representatives, experts and researchers convened for a three-day workshop in March 2023.
Year of publication: 2023Organization: International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
Topic: Climate change, Environmental services, Participation
Language: English
Type of document: Newletters
Geographical coverage: Global
The purpose of this Sourcebook is to provide advice on how to incorporate disaster risk reduction and resilience building into the watershed management process. As an increasingly heavier toll is exerted on agriculture and food systems by drought, floods, wildfires, and other extreme events, adopting risk reduction and management practices must become an integral part of watershed management. While the steps involved to incorporate resilience building are similar to those routinely carried out in integrated watershed management, this Sourcebook stresses the importance of understanding disaster and climate risks, adopting a landscape approach and targeting vulnerable groups (e.g. women, youth, indigenous people, others) at all stages of planning and implementing watershed management.
Year of publication: 2023Organization: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Topic: Environmental services, Resilience
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Global
Soils contribute to the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals through carbon sequestration. By enhancing soil health and fertility, soils can play a crucial role in climate action, land degradation neutrality, and alleviating hunger. The present study provides a spatially explicit report on the state of grassland soils and can be used as a baseline for future work to explore the impacts of livestock management on soil carbon at regional, country and farm levels. Assessing the current state of grassland systems and their potential to sequester carbon in the soil is of key importance to understanding the trade-offs between grassland services on food security, biodiversity conservation and climate mitigation.
Year of publication: 2023Organization: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Individual authors
Topic: Climate change, Environmental services, Land
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Global
The goal of this technical paper is to draw attention to the lessons pastoral systems offer in the face of climate change, in particular with regard to the challenge of achieving global resilience to climate variability without depending on unsustainable energy inputs.
Year of publication: 2023Organization: Individual authors
Topic: Climate change, Food security
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Global
Despite awareness of the critical roles of rangelands in sustaining livelihoods of pastoralists and ecological safeguarding, rangelands have felt the pressure of habitat fragmentation, land use change, industrialization, enclosure, privatization, militarization, and ecosystem devastation. This international blind peer-review journal, ‘Pastures & Pastoralism’, will contribute to the science, policy and practice across the world by providing a novel platform to seasoned, budding and young scientists, experts and practitioners, including the pastoral community members.
Year of publication: 2023Organization: Individual authors
Topic: Climate change, Economy, Environmental services, Food security, Indigenous knowledge, Indigenous peoples, Land, Resilience
Language: English
Type of document: Technical, Scientific, Databases
Geographical coverage: Global
We all know that industrial livestock farming is destroying our ecosystems and damaging the climate. But does that mean going vegan is the only way to save the planet? Not all meat and milk is created equal, and traditional communities around the world raise animals in very different ways, with hugely different environmental impacts.
Year of publication: 2022Organization: Individual authors
Topic: Climate change, Environmental services
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Global
“Grazing with Trees” is a timely report which draws evidence from research, shares experiences from various case studies, and collates valuable knowledge from people on the ground. The report constitutes a solid foundation based on which we can analyse the current situation, discuss the main challenges and threats and, above all, build a roadmap to enhance the benefits provided by dryland silvopastoralism.
Year of publication: 2022Organization: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Topic: Climate change, Environmental services, Resilience
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Global