Multi-stakeholder platform discusses how to reduce conflict
Promoting dialogue, fostering partnerships and finding solutions for the challenges that pastoralists are facing: these are the goals of the Pastoralism and Transhumance Platform, a multi-stakeholder initiative launched in March 2015 by the government of the Central African Republic. At its...

Climate-related phenomena like El Niño and La Niña, have, in the last several decades, increased both in frequency and ferocity, hitting global agriculture with a blunt and brutal force. Typically, once every ten years, El Niño events now occur in regions like East Africa every...

From crisis response towards strategic and sustainable approach
A first African Drought Conference was held under the auspices of the African Union in Windhoek, Namibia, this week, as a follow-up to the High-level Meeting on National Drought Policies (HMNDP), organized by FAO, WMO and UNCCD Secretariat, in 2013, in...

Ethiopia’s pastoral lowlands are bisected by a number of major river systems like the Awash River in Afar, which runs throughout the arid region. Awash and systems like the Wabe Shabelle which begins in Oromia and the Omo in Southern...

Nationwide floods have levelled another blow to the recovery process for drought-affected pastoralists inEthiopia. Well over 55 000 hectares of land – much of it pasture– has been flooded since late April. So far, thousands of livestock have been lost to the...