زادت أنشطة المنظمة في مجال تخفيف القطعان في الاستقرار المالي وفي سبل المعيشة لدى المجتمعات الرعوية.
في المنطقة الصومالية، جنوب شرقي إثيوبيا، تسبّب الجفاف المستمر - أشد جفاف وقع في نصف قرن بسبب آثار ظاهرة النينيو – في النقص الحاد في الغذاء والماء، مما أدّى إلى هجرات غير طبيعية ونفوق الماشية على نطاق واسع. يعتمد معظم...

Pastoralists are stewards of the rangelands that cover a third of the planet’s land surface, providing food and protecting key ecosystem services
Pastoralism can be environment-friendly and can also be a source of sustainable production.  An animated debate by key-players in the livestock sector demonstrated pastoralism’s ability to promote healthy ecosystems in the face of climate change and diminishing pastoral lands, showing...

Ministers from African countries North and South of the Sahara and their development partners are meeting in Dakar, Senegal, at a High-Level conference organized by the African Union to accelerate progress on the Great Green Wall - Africa’s largest rural...

CILSS and FAO reinforce impact of support initiatives and tools for resilience measurement
The Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS), with the technical and financial support of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), has launched a technical Platform for the analysis and measurement of resilience of populations in...

Laying out a strategy for pastoral development
Pastoralist organizations participated in the first high-level conference of the Regional Sahel Pastoralism Support Project (PRAPS) on 15-17 March in Dakar, Senegal. Together with other stakeholders, they drafted recommendations on planning and implementing activities of the PRAPS programme. The 6-year, US$ 248...