This field manual supports planning and management in rangelands including in village land use planning.
Year of publication: 2014Organization: Coalición Internacional para el Acceso a la Tierra (ILC)
Topic: Tierra
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: África Oriental
Rangelands are large natural landscapes that can include grasslands, shrublands, savannahs and woodlands. They are greatly influenced by, and often dependent on, the action of herbivores. In the majority of rangelands the dominant herbivores are found in domestic herds that are managed by mobile pastoralists. Most pastoralists manage their rangelands communally, benefitting from the greater flexibility and seasonal resource access that common property regimes can offer. As this book shows, this creates a major challenge for governance and institutions.
Year of publication: 2014Organization: Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (IUCN)
Topic: Tierra, Organización
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: Global
The Post-2015 Agenda provides an opportunity to work globally towards making livestock production systems more sustainable while finding solutions for the conservation and sustainable use of ecosystems such as rangelands. This fact sheet presents overlooked facts, myths and emerging issues regarding pastoralism and gives recommendations on how to work towards sustainable pastoralism.
Year of publication: 2014Organization: Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (IUCN), Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (UNEP)
Topic: Economía, Servicios ambientales, Participación
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: Global
What is the magnitude of pastoralism? The issue of the social and economic importance of pastoral systems is closely related with policies of land use. Overestimating the importance of pastoral systems, or downplaying it, can slow down development and lead to undesirable consequences. This study looks at the demand, the supply, and the future concerning data on the magnitude of pastoral systems in Kenya.
Year of publication: 2014Organization: , Autores individuales
Topic: Economía
Language: English
Type of document: Científico
Geographical coverage: África Oriental
The World Initiative for Sustainable Pastoralism (WISP) has now been in existence for a decade, a period during which considerable progress has been made globally towards sustainable pastoral development. Many challenges remain for pastoralists, but in the areas where gains have been made it is vital these are built upon and achievements are not squandered. This book follows WISP’s global approach and highlights key examples from its work with partners around the world. It identifies the impact of WISP’s work in empowering pastoralists through improved advocacy skills and better knowledge, and in helping to change policy and practice. Through case studies, testimonies and photos, this book aims to bring WISP’s global stories of pastoralism to a wider audience and identify opportunities for future success.
Year of publication: 2014Organization: Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (IUCN)
Topic: Cambio climático, Economía, Servicios ambientales, Resiliencia
Language: English, Français
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: Global
Key stakeholders that included the pastoralists, farmers, and other natural resource users, civil society, the academia, key government agencies, faith-based organizations, the media and security agencies discussed and proffered lasting solutions to the security challenges associated with pastoralism in countries and across the region, to promote the improvement of pastoral production systems.
Year of publication: 2014Organization: Autores individuales
Topic: Conflicto, Organización
Language: English
Type of document: Políticas y legislación
Geographical coverage: África Occidental, África Central
The country report presents an analysis of changing policy narratives about the arid and semi-arid lands in Kenya. Kenya cannot achieve its development targets unless there are appropriate investments in the arid and semi-arid lands. These lands can make a significant contribution to national development and the failure to integrate them into the national economy is perhaps being the main reason for the failure of national development since independence. Investing in the arid lands is now a constitutional imperative and the institutional foundations for their integration into national development are now in place.
Year of publication: 2014Organization: Instituto Internacional de Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo (IIED)
Topic: Cambio climático, Economía, Servicios ambientales, Resiliencia
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: África Oriental
The substantial value of pastoral systems remains largely invisible to local, national and regional calculations of economic performance (for example the construction of GDP). Official data continue to be used even when their reliability is known to be poor. A complementary framework in cost-benefit analysis, known as Total Economic Valuation, is increasingly being used by NGOs and regional bodies to help put onto the map the many aspects of economic value contributed by pastoral systems– contributions that are presently not counted. This issue paper provides a practical tool for those interested in carrying out work on the Total Economic Valuation of pastoralism.
Year of publication: 2014Organization: Instituto Internacional de Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo (IIED)
Topic: Economía
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: África Oriental, Global