This scoping study explores the resilience strategies of households in multiple livelihood systems by describing how households in Darfur have coped with conflict and other shocks over the past fifteen years. The study found that people actively select particular sources of income in a strategic pattern and move in and out of various income streams as the context and their assets allow to maximize their immediate and long-term outcomes while coping with and recovering from shocks.
Year of publication: 2015Organization: Feinstein International Center
Topic: Resilience
Language: English
Type of document: Scientific
Geographical coverage: Europe
Une capitalisation des modèles de sécurisation du foncier pastoral a été réalisée dans trois pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest (Burkina Faso, Niger et Sénégal). Les éléments saillants et les messages clefs issus de ce travail de capitalisation sont consignés dans la présente note de politique qui est destinée à alimenter la réflexion et les discussions engagées dans le cadre de l'évaluation de la politique agricole régionale adoptée en 2005 par la CEDEAO : l'ECOWAP/PDDA.
Year of publication: 2015Organization: Réseau Billital Maroobé (RBM)
Topic: Land
Language: Français
Type of document: Policies and legislation
Geographical coverage: West Africa
Le rapport capitalise les modèles de sécurisation du foncier pastoral en Afrique de l’Ouest développés par les organisations pastorales membres du Réseau Billital Maroobé, plus spécifiquement au Burkina Faso, au Niger et au Sénégal. Il analyse aussi l’expérience prometteuse de l'Observatoire des terres de parcours et de l'intégrité des couloirs de transhumance et commerciaux pour la mobilité du bétail en Afrique sahélienne de l'Ouest et du Centre. Des éléments de réflexion sur le contexte de fragilisation des droits fonciers des éleveurs en Afrique de l’Ouest et sur l’évolution du cadre juridique et institutionnel qui affecte le pastoralisme permettent tirer quelques leçons et formuler quelques recommandations.
Year of publication: 2015Organization: Réseau Billital Maroobé (RBM)
Topic: Land
Language: Français
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: West Africa
Agro-pastoral dams (APDs) – water reservoirs constructed to provide water for livestock and for agricultural development – have been constructed all over Benin. These APDs face several conflicts (farmers versus herders, council versus vegetable producers, fishermen versus council, and fishermen and APD users versus crocodiles) rooted in the multi-functionality of APDs and the involvement of diverse stakeholders. Using the integral ecology framework as the conceptual inspiration, the research gained insights on: (i) the complexity of APDs that impedes agreement on common rules for their management, (ii) the way stakeholders frame the presence of crocodiles, (iii) the health status of the APD ecosystem by using water quality, fish diversity, and fish biomass as indicators, (iv) the constraints that hinder vegetable production around the APDs. The study suggests that an innovation platform should be established in which all the stakeholders can discuss changes, resulting in optimal use of APD ecosystem services and their management.
Year of publication: 2015Organization: Individual authors
Topic: Conflict, Environmental services, Innovation
Language: English
Type of document: Scientific
Geographical coverage: West Africa
Sur initiative conjointe de la CEDEAO, du Gouvernement de la République du Bénin et du Réseau Billital Maroobé (RBM) s’est tenue à Cotonou, la Deuxième Edition de la Concertation de Haut Niveau sur la transhumance transfrontalière apaisée entre le Sahel et les pays côtiers.
L’objectif de la réunion était d’apprécier l’état de mise en oeuvre des conclusions et recommandations de la Session de Lomé, tenue en janvier 2015, et de dégager de nouvelles orientations pour une transhumance apaisée lors de la prochaine campagne.
Lire le communiqué final de la session ministérielle (5p.)
Lire le rapport de la réunion des experts (12p.)
Year of publication: 2015Organization: Réseau Billital Maroobé (RBM)
Topic: Participation
Language: Français
Type of document: Policies and legislation
Geographical coverage: West Africa
How can education help build a stronger and more secure society and economy in Kenya’s northern arid lands? This study uses a resilience framework to ask how various education systems in the arid lands are helping or hindering young people and their societies to absorb shocks, adapt to and minimize stresses, and transform in positive ways when confronted with internal change and external pressures. The question is based on the concept of peacebuilding, in which it is assumed that people and societies are resilient when they accommodate adversity through complementary absorptive, adaptive and transformative capacities.
Year of publication: 2015Organization: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Topic: Education, Gender and youth, Resilience
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Eastern Africa
For centuries, pastoralists achieved a social, cultural, environmental and economic balance in these unpredictable ecosystems by developing highly adaptable and sustainable livestock production systems. However, pastoralists remain largely unheard and unseen due to their mobility with livestock in search of pastures, water sources and markets. The current dominant narratives on pastoralism fail to acknowledge their contributions to society, economy and environment.
This report highlights the benefits of pastoralists’ participation in society and vice-versa. It discusses the mechanisms to enhance pastoralist participation in policy dialogue.
Year of publication: 2015Organization: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Topic: Participation, Value addition
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Global
The landscape in Sierra de Gredos was modelled largely by the livestock that traditionally grazed in mountain pastures in the summer and descended to the valleys when the snow came. In this video, one of the few goat farmers left in this Natura 2000 site explains their pastoral management and the impact of recent policy developments.
Year of publication: 2015Organization: European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism (EFNCP)
Topic: Environmental services
Language: English, Español
Type of document: Videos
Geographical coverage: Europe