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Although livestock represents a significant portion of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and supports millions of livelihoods, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, this sector is seriously constrained by animal diseases, inadequate investments, and unfavourable government policies.

The COMESA Regional Livestock Policy Framework aims to support the strengthening of COMESA to play its role of coordination, harmonization, integration and support to countries with the aim to stimulate a more conducive environment for public and private investments in the livestock sector. It relies heavily on the review of livestock and related policies of member states and expansive body of literature and research on animal agriculture in the COMESA region, the livestock trade, its economics and sociology. This policy has implications for pastoralists in Eastern and Southern Africa, that occupy arid and semi-arid lands and contribute greatly to the livestock economy.

Year of publication: 2015
Organization: Mercado Común para África Oriental y Meridional 
Topic: Economía, Servicios ambientales, Seguridad alimentaria, Resiliencia, Valeur ajoutée
Language: English
Type of document: Políticas y legislación
Geographical coverage: África Oriental, África Meridional

This paper discusses providing education to children from families with mobile livelihoods. It includes case studies from nomadic groups’ education in Kenya, India, Afghanistan and Indonesia. 

Year of publication: 2015
Organization: Autores individuales 
Topic: Educación
Language: English
Type of document: Científico
Geographical coverage: Global

Чарогоҳу алафзорҳои табиии Тоҷикистон бештар аз 3,9 млн гектар буда, дар минтақаҳои гуногун – аз водиҳои гармсер то баландкӯҳҳо паҳн шудааст. Иқлиму хокҳои гуногун сабабгори асосии набототи гуногуни чарогоҳу алафзор аст. Дар таркиби набототи чарогоҳ бештар аз 1000 намуди растаниҳои гулдор – алафҳои яксолаю бисёрсола, буттаю нимбуттаҳо вомехӯранд.

Year of publication: 2015
Organization: Sociedad Alemana de Cooperación Internacional (GIZ) 
Topic: Economía
Language: тоҷикӣ / تاجیکی
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: Asia Central

This review draws on examples, interventions and lessons from pastoralist and other livestock systems across the world in order to assist in addressing the following identified problem statement: “Poor conditions of sale discourage market orientation for millions of micro- and small-scale livestock keepers (pastoralists and agropastoralists) across the arid and semi-arid lands of the Horn of Africa, limiting their abilities to effectively deal with risk and increase productivity and wealth.”

Examples are drawn from cases in Botswana, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Brazil, Benin, Nigeria, Uganda and Kenya, covering initiatives relate to infrastructure, animal health, telecommunications, insurance, sharia-compliant micro-credit, policy, transaction costs, social capital and gender.

Year of publication: 2015
Organization:  
Topic: Economía, Finanzas, Resiliencia
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: África Oriental, Global

This publication presents the scientific background of the Self‑evaluation and Holistic Assessment of climate Resilience of farmers and Pastoralists (SHARP) tool. SHARP assesses resilience through a participatory survey to both measure resilience and to engender discussions on how to increase farmers’ and pastoralists’ resilience. It was was developed over two years with the participation of over 150 academics, practitioners and civil society. SHARP was also field tested in Angola, Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and Uganda with farmers and pastoralists. It has been recognized that there is a need to both provide a rigorous assessment of the resilience of farmers and pastoralists, while also incorporating the views and needs of those people. 

Year of publication: 2015
Organization: Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) 
Topic: Cambio climático, Resiliencia
Language: English
Type of document: Científico
Geographical coverage: África Occidental, África Central, África Oriental, África Meridional

This report explores insights from five case studies that have made significant recent progress in addressing the challenge of insuring poor smallholder farmers and pastoralists in the developing world. Evidence from these case studies can inform the ongoing debate about the viability of scaling up index-based insurance for vulnerable smallholder farmers in the developing world. The rapid progress observed in recent years suggests that index insurance has the potential to benefit smallholder farmers at a meaningful scale, and suggests the need to reassess arguments that lack of demand and practical implementation challenges prevent index-based insurance from being a useful tool to reduce rural poverty.

Year of publication: 2015
Organization: Programa de Investigación sobre Cambio Climático, Agricultura y Seguridad Alimentaria (CCAFS) 
Topic: Economía, Innovación, Servicios sociales
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: Global

This media handbook provides a quick reference guide that can be used by journalists and other media practitioners to help influence perceptions, policy and practice related to pastoralism among Ugandan policymakers and the general public. It describes in an easily understandable way what pastoralism is, why it is important, the challenges that pastoralists face, and the role that media can play in dispelling myths about pastoralism and portraying its reality.

Year of publication: 2015
Organization:  
Topic: Servicios sociales
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: África Oriental

The 200,000 herder households of Mongolia manage around 45 million livestock heads. The public pasturelands they use are at high risk of soil degradation. Over the past decade, the local NGO Environment and Development Association “JASIL” has successfully experimented with, and implemented, a model for the community-based management of pastureland, in which the herder households, their community heads, and the local governments enter into contract, in order to manage the pastureland in an environmentally and economically sustainable manner. The income of the households involved in the 10-year experimentation increased by 23-56%.

Year of publication: 2014
Organization: Coalición Internacional para el Acceso a la Tierra (ILC) 
Topic: Tierra
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: Asia Central