This manual complements the Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS) handbook by providing technical information on interventions such as feed and water distribution, destocking, provision of shelter or rebuilding the asset base post-disasters.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Topic: Conflict, Resilience
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Global
The aims of this paper are to share experiences and lessons learned from advocating pastoralism and improving the voice of pastoralists in policy-making processes in Ethiopia through a specific activity and process – namely the Ethiopian Pastoralist Day.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Pastoralist Forum Ethiopia
Topic: Participation
Language: English
Type of document: Scientific
Geographical coverage: Eastern Africa
This summary report documents the results of the workshop convened by the African Union Commission AUC) from 29 June - 01 July 2016 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The workshop was organized under the theme “Resilience and adaptation to drought conditions and pastoralists systems in Africa” and was attended by representatives of the AUC, Regional Economic Communities, representatives from pastoralist and farmer organisations, national governments and civil society organizations.
The workshop highlighted the need to cascade the Policy Framework for Pastoralism in Africa at national level with a greater coordination on the continent and within regions. This calls for establishment of a mechanism in place by the African Union Commission to assess the progress, address challenges and take advantage of the opportunities it presents.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: The African Union – Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR)
Topic: Organization, Resilience
Language: English
Type of document: Technical, Policies and legislation
Geographical coverage: North Africa, West Africa, Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa
This paper aims to analyse how land tenure regimes of pastoralist societies living in the Andean altiplano have transformed over the last 50 years. It also discusses the implications of these transformations for the sustainability of resource management in these areas.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Evidence and lessons from Latin America (ELLA)
Topic: Land
Language: English, Español
Type of document: Technical, Scientific
Geographical coverage: Latin America
This report recognizes the unique role of pastoral systems. It identifies the key challenges that pastoralism is facing. Its recommendations include enabling the mobility of pastoralists, strengthening the role of local pastoralist organizations, improving social services and market access for pastoral communities and strengthening security, tenure and title of customary lands, property rights and governance of grazing resources.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
Topic: Economy, Organization, Social services
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Global
Pastoralists in East Africa are engaging in conservation and tourism to supplement their livestock-based livelihoods and spread risk. This working paper uses a mixed set of qualitative and quantitative data to explore how involvement in conservation and tourism may be enhancing, or restricting, climate-resilient pastoral livelihoods.
The research examines some of the livelihood trade-offs pastoralists must make when participating in conservancies, and the mechanisms through which they manage their livestock herds to cope with shrinking ranges. The results can help to inform conservation and tourism investments to better serve as livelihood opportunities that maintain, and enhance, pastoral resilience.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
Topic: Economy, Environmental services, Innovation, Resilience
Language: English
Type of document: Technical, Scientific
Geographical coverage: Eastern Africa
The aim of this paper is to present a three-stage model that specifies the possible mechanisms for the domestication of the guanaco (Lama guanicoe cacsilensis Lönnberg, 1913), which gave origin to the llama (Lama glama Linnaeus, 1758). A more comprehensive analytical framework is proposed, beyond the wild-domestic dichotomy. The model takes into account the interaction of two components: animal and human behaviors. Simultaneously, we analyse the types of selection acting in the different stages of the domestication process and the archaeological evidence available.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Individual authors
Topic: Environmental services, Innovation
Language: English
Type of document: Scientific
Geographical coverage: Latin America
This publication compiles 60 articles of the contributions presented at the 19th Meeting of the FAO-CIHEAM Mountain Pastures Subnetwork, held in Zaragoza (Spain) in 2016: “Mountain pastures and livestock farming facing uncertainty: environmental, technical and socio-economic challenges”. Over 90 researchers and technicians involved in research and development activities on mountain pastures participated in the Meeting, structured around four specific scientific topics: 1) Pathways towards mountain farming system sustainability: assessment methods and case studies ; 2) Livestock on mountain pastures: animal performance and quality products ; 3) Animal-Pasture interactions in mountain areas: bottlenecks and opportunities in biodiversity management and forage production ; 4) Mountain pastures and society: biophysical, economic and socio-cultural valuation of ecosystem services. Presentations of the meeting can be found here.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: International Center for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM)
Topic: Climate change, Economy, Environmental services, Food security, Land, Social services
Language: English
Type of document: Scientific
Geographical coverage: Europe