The study explores how strengthening the resilience of African livestock systems to climate change, and making current investments to improve African livestock coping mechanisms, can improve the climate resilience of small-holder farmers and pastoralists. The study was implemented in 2009 through two sub-regional reviews (one in eastern and southern Africa, the second in West and Central Africa), six country visits (Kenya, Namibia, Malawi, Cameroon, Niger and Mali), and an e-conference.
Year of publication: 2010Organization: Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (IUCN)
Topic: Cambio climático, Seguridad alimentaria, Innovación, Resiliencia
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico, Políticas y legislación
Geographical coverage: África Occidental, África Central, África Oriental
There is new interest and willingness to look afresh at how formal schooling can become compatible with pastoralism. It is becoming clear that Education for All requires a re-thinking of how pastoralists make a living and thus how formal education fits. Pastoralism is and will remain the main economic driver in most dryland regions of Africa, and is important also in semi-arid areas and mountainous highland regions in South Asia. This document presents the problem of the school-based model of formal education and discusses inclusive approaches to pastoral education.
Year of publication: 2010Organization: Autores individuales
Topic: Educación
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: Global
This report explores the implications of climate change for pastoralists and agro-pastoralists in Ethiopia and Mali. The focus of the report is on local perceptions of changes in climate shocks and stressors. It examines how people respond to these changes, and what constraints they face. Examining local perceptions and responses to change is important because these can help to identify more precisely what support pastoralists require to strengthen their climate resilience. It will also help identify specific constraints that different actors and groups face, and also uncover a more holistic understanding of adaptation in relation to particular socio-economic, political or historical contexts. Drawing on local perceptions, policy makers will be better informed of the impacts of climate change as they are felt on the ground, the challenges and opportunities that pastoralists face in adjusting their livelihoods, and what further assistance should be provided.
Year of publication: 2010Organization: Autores individuales
Topic: Cambio climático, Seguridad alimentaria, El conocimiento indígena, Pueblos indígenas, Resiliencia
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: África Occidental, África Oriental
Today there are nearly 200 million pastoralists in the world generating income where conventional farming is limited or not possible. However, pastoral communities are marginalized and generally not given due consideration in wider socio-political analysis. This brief paper presents new challenges and opportunities for pastoralism and key issues and questions in project design.
Year of publication: 2009Organization: Fondo Internacional de Desarrollo Agrícola (FIDA)
Topic: Economía, Organización, Participación, Resiliencia, Valeur ajoutée
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: Global
Equitable and secure access to land is a critical factor for the rural poor, especially livestock owners, who depend on agriculture and animal-related activities for their livelihood. This thematic paper is based on the assumption that secure investments in livestock infrastructure and assets can be encouraged by ensuring equitable and secure access to land, and that this approach will help reduce rural poverty. To this end, it identifies experiences and lessons learnt regarding livestock and land-related issues, drawing on experiences from IFAD development projects and programmes all over the world, with a special focus on Africa. It examines the following interrelated issues: livestock and access to land, access to reliable sources of water, encroachment, land degradation, grazing and mobility.
Year of publication: 2009Organization: Fondo Internacional de Desarrollo Agrícola (FIDA)
Topic: Economía, Tierra, Valeur ajoutée
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: Norte de África, África Occidental, África Central, África Oriental, África Meridional
This paper addresses the challenge of educating nomadic peoples in the context of rapid global socio-economic change. First, it maps out the conceptual terrain, analysing the key debates in relation to terms that are often misleadingly used as if they are interchangeable – education, schooling, and learning. Second, the paper reviews successful and innovative approaches to education provision around the world that can inform and inspire new approaches to nomadic education.
Year of publication: 2009Organization: Instituto Internacional de Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo (IIED)
Topic: Educación
Language: English
Type of document: Científico
Geographical coverage: Global
This report examines if and how different wealth groups benefit from the livestock export trade. It looks in detail at the household-level economic strategies of different pastoralist wealth groups and their marketing behaviors. It also explores the apparent contradiction between increasing levels of pastoralist destitution in the Horn of Africa, and increasing exports of livestock and livestock products. The publication concludes that in terms of poverty reduction, poorer herders benefit least from livestock exports.
Year of publication: 2009Organization:
Topic: Economía, Valeur ajoutée
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: África Oriental
This book is about the critical role mobile livestock keeping plays in the economic prosperity of Africa's drylands. Pastoralism rellies on unique production strategies with the ability to move being most critical. New policies and innovative practices for pastoralist mobility are beginning to take root in many parts of dryland Africa. Livestock mobility is a modern approach to poverty alleviation and accelerated development. Supporting mobility does not require huge financial investment: it requires refreshed thinking and clearer understanding. This book is a starting point.
Year of publication: 2009Organization: Instituto Internacional de Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo (IIED)
Topic: Cambio climático, Economía, Seguridad alimentaria, Tierra, Resiliencia, Valeur ajoutée
Language: English, Français
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: África Occidental, África Oriental