In this video Maasai elders in Kenya recall the devastation they have seen caused by rinderpest, or cattle plague. For millennia, the virus was a threat to animal health and human livelihoods, until a global FAO-led programme was successful in eradicating it in 2011.
Year of publication: 2011Organization: Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Topic: Sanidad, Resiliencia
Language: English
Type of document: Videos
Geographical coverage: África Oriental
This briefing provides arguments for the establishment of a collaborative crossborder transhumance management strategy between the two countries. It draws on examples of initiatives developed in West Africa.
Year of publication: 2011Organization: Unión Europea (EU)
Topic: Conflicto, El conocimiento indígena, Innovación, Organización, Participación
Language: English
Type of document: Políticas y legislación
Geographical coverage: África Occidental, África Oriental
This publication produces a series of papers on land use administration, land use change, securing of rights to resources and other in Laikipia, Kenya.
Year of publication: 2011Organization: Autores individuales
Topic: Tierra
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: África Oriental
This policy brief summarises lessons from innovations by pastoralists in Ethiopia and Kenya in three critical areas that are shaping the future of pastoralism in the Horn of Africa: land deals and access to high value fodder; commercialisation and markets; and peace-building.
Year of publication: 2011Organization:
Topic: Innovación
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico, Políticas y legislación
Geographical coverage: África Oriental
This publication presents terms and definitions to ensure clear international communication regarding grazing lands and grazing animals.
Year of publication: 2011Organization: Autores individuales
Topic: Servicios ambientales
Language: English
Type of document: Científico
Geographical coverage: Global
The needs of nomadic pastoralists are generally complex and those relating to the provision of education need special attention due to the many challenges facing the children and the communities. Recognizing this, the Ministry of Education in Kenya, in collaboration with its development partners, has drafted this policy framework to enable Kenya’s nomadic communities to access basic education and training.
The Ministry acknowledges that education cannot be provided to nomadic communities without taking their socio-cultural and other developmental concerns into consideration. Therefore, it proposes multiple approaches such as mobile schools, non-formal schools, formal schools, and boarding schools, as well as creating linkages between these approaches. The policy framework is therefore aimed at providing broad guidelines for the coordination and harmonization of efforts in the delivery of quality educational services to nomadic communities.
Year of publication: 2011Organization: Autores individuales
Topic: Educación, Género y juventud, Servicios sociales
Language: English
Type of document: Políticas y legislación
Geographical coverage: África Oriental
Los derechos milenarios de los ganaderos a desplazarse libremente por el territorio nacional fueron reconocidos en 1212 en Aragón por Jaime I, con el Fuero de Pastura universal, y en 1273 en Castilla y León por Alfonso X, con la creación del Concejo de la Mesta. La importancia que adquirió la trashumancia en España es debida a la alternancia de recursos pastables alternativos en invierno y en verano, para lo cual los ganados deben desplazarse frecuentemente a larga distancia, entre 400 y 600 Km, recorriendo las cañadas durante 4 o 6 semanas en primavera y algo más en otoño, al ser las noches más prolongadas. El mayor beneficio se obtenía del comercio de la lana de las ovejas merinas, la más fina del mundo, y que se exportaba a todos los países europeos. Constituyó un preciado monopolio español hasta la invasión napoleónica del siglo XIX.
Year of publication: 2011Organization:
Topic: Servicios ambientales, El conocimiento indígena, Tierra
Language: Español
Type of document: Mapas
Geographical coverage: Europa
Recognizing the crucial role of dryland mountains in implementing a truly sustainable development, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) together with the Mountain Partnership Secretariat, the UNCCD Secretariat, the Centre for Development and Environment of the University of Bern and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, identified an urgent need to prepare this publication. It provides an overall vision of the ecological, social and cultural features of dryland mountain socio-ecosystems, and aims to demonstrate the importance of investing human and financial resources in dryland mountains ecosystems worldwide in order to limit the impact of global change on the livelihoods and natural resources.
Year of publication: 2011Organization: Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Topic: Cambio climático, Servicios ambientales, Finanzas, Pueblos indígenas, Tierra, Resiliencia
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: Global