The Policy Framework for Pastoralism in Africa is the first continent-wide policy initiative which aims to secure, protect and improve the lives, livelihoods and rights of African pastoralists. The policy framework is a platform for mobilizing and coordinating political commitment to pastoral development in Africa, and emphasizes the need to fully involve pastoralist women and men in the national and regional development processes from which they are supposed to benefit. The framework also emphasizes the regional nature of many pastoralist ecosystems in Africa and therefore, the need to support and harmonize policies across the Regional Economic Communities and Member States.
Year of publication: 2010Organization: المكتب الأفريقى للموارد الحيوانية
Topic: أمن غذائي, الشعوب الأصلية, منظمة, مشاركة, خدمات اجتماعية
Language: English
Type of document: السياسات والتشريعات
Geographical coverage: شمال أفريقيا, غربية افريقيا, أفريقيا الوسطى, شرق أفريقيا, جنوب أفريقيا
The purpose of this paper is to review demographic trends as well as settlement and service provision patterns using quantitative data, where possible, and drawing on experiences, evidence and lessons from the Horn and East Africa regions. It addresses some of the most salient issues around pastoral livelihoods, emphasising the need to improve understanding in efforts to promote the resilience of these livelihoods. This study recognises the complexity of the issues and does not aim to provide answers, but rather to highlight issues and pose questions that policy makers, politicians and other key stakeholders need to grapple with in order to put into practice measures to reduce risk and mitigate vulnerability.
Year of publication: 2010Organization: أوكسفام
Topic: مرونة, خدمات اجتماعية
Language: English
Type of document: تقني, علمي
Geographical coverage: شرق أفريقيا
This study examines the effects of climate change, drought and decreasing natural resources
amongst mobile populations, specifically pastoralists in the North Eastern and North Rift Valley provinces of Kenya. The study provides an evidence base and proposes programmatic interventions that would be implemented in collaboration with the regional governments and other key players to address conflicts over resources and increased migration to [peri] urban areas.
Organization: كتاب مستقلون, برنامج الأمم المتحدة للبيئة
Topic: تغير المناخ, الشعوب الأصلية
Language: English
Type of document: تقني
Geographical coverage: شرق أفريقيا
This guide is written for people who want to design and implement a simple rangeland monitoring programme in Eastern Africa. It outlines a series of steps that will enable community members and other land managers to decide what, where, when, and how to monitor, as well as how to interpret and apply the results of their monitoring. The guide introduces a simple set of methods for collecting monitoring data using only a pencil, a stick, and a single datasheet.
Year of publication: 2010Organization: كتاب مستقلون
Topic: نوع الملكية
Language: English
Type of document: تقني
Geographical coverage: شرق أفريقيا
Lessons from West Africa indicate cross-border mobility needs to be addressed within a comprehensive policy, legal and institutional framework that harmonizes national and regional legislation to secure livestock mobility from the local to the regional level. At regional level, the ECOWAS decision agreed in Abuja in October 1998 provides a regional framework for cross-border transhumance between fifteen member states.
Year of publication: 2010Organization: السوق المشتركة لشرق وجنوب أفريقيا
Topic: صراع, مشاركة
Language: English
Type of document: السياسات والتشريعات
Geographical coverage: غربية افريقيا, شرق أفريقيا, جنوب أفريقيا
Biocultural community protocols are a new approach with great potential for empowering pastoralists and other traditional livestock-keeping communities. They are both a process and a document in which communities invoke their rights as guardians of biological diversity under Article 8j of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity. Claiming rights for in-situ conservation, they also help promote livestock keepers’ rights to maintain their breeds and continue their traditional management practices.
Biocultural community protocols put on record traditional knowledge and the biodiversity that communities steward, in a process that the communities themselves drive. In developing a biocultural community protocol, communities become informed about national and international laws that protect their rights. This book provides an overview of the process as well as its legal background and describes the first experiences with implementing this approach by livestock keepers in Asia and Africa.
Year of publication: 2010Organization: ,
Topic: الإدراك الفطري, منظمة, مشاركة
Language: English
Type of document: تقني
Geographical coverage: مناطق العالم
This policy brief argues the need for national strategies to guide development actors and help enhance the impact of aid interventions. There is also a need to close the gap between the theory and practice of pastoral development by supporting longer-term investments and programme strategies, ensuring that good practices are adopted, and bridging the gap between development and emergency relief efforts.
Year of publication: 2010Organization: معهد التنمية الخارجية
Topic: أمن غذائي
Language: English
Type of document: تقني, السياسات والتشريعات
Geographical coverage: شرق أفريقيا
The study explores how strengthening the resilience of African livestock systems to climate change, and making current investments to improve African livestock coping mechanisms, can improve the climate resilience of small-holder farmers and pastoralists. The study was implemented in 2009 through two sub-regional reviews (one in eastern and southern Africa, the second in West and Central Africa), six country visits (Kenya, Namibia, Malawi, Cameroon, Niger and Mali), and an e-conference.
Year of publication: 2010Organization: الاتحاد الدولي لحفظ الطبيعة
Topic: تغير المناخ, أمن غذائي, ابتكار, مرونة
Language: English
Type of document: تقني, السياسات والتشريعات
Geographical coverage: غربية افريقيا, أفريقيا الوسطى, شرق أفريقيا