This report presents findings from a community participatory study conducted to determine the seasonality of malnutrition and factors associated with malnutrition among children and women in Laisamis subcounty, Marsabit County. The study was conducted as part of the Livestock for Health (L4H) project. This project investigates the cost-effectiveness of livestock feeding and nutritional counselling during critical dry periods in reducing the risk of acute malnutrition in children below 5 years of age and in pregnant and lactating women (PLW). The L4H project is based on the observed patterns of increased acute malnutrition, associated with decreased milk consumption, among women and children in pastoralist communities.
Year of publication: 2021Organization: Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO), Auteurs individuels, Fonds des Nations Unies pour l'enfance
Topic: Sécurité alimentaire, Services de santé, Participation
Language: English
Type of document: Technique
Geographical coverage: Afrique orientale
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) developed these guidelines with the overall objective to protect and improve the productivity of the ruminant livestock species of South Sudan. Focussing on the best use of local feed resources, the guidelines mainly target livestock extension workers promoting livestock feed development good practices to pastoral and agropastoral communities as well as the emerging market-oriented smallholder livestock producers. This document also serves as an important tool for advancing the policy and strategic priority actions of the East Africa Animal Feed Action Plan (FAO and IGAD, 2019) and the draft National Livestock Development Policy of South Sudan.
Year of publication: 2021Organization: Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO)
Topic: Sécurité alimentaire, Innovation, Résilience
Language: English
Type of document: Technique
Geographical coverage: Afrique orientale
As part of the efforts to find sustainable solutions to complex land tenure issues, multi-stakeholder platforms (MSPs) create an inclusive forum where actors can discuss problems and propose solutions to improve governance of tenure and provide better access to natural resources. This publication highlights how MSPs at regional, national and local level demonstrate forward thinking, including innovative practices and approaches to respond to the above mentioned social challenges, for the benefit of all.
Year of publication: 2020Organization: Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO)
Topic: Régime foncier
Language: English
Type of document: Technique
Geographical coverage: Global
n Ecuador, the livestock sector is essential for food security. It is also an important source of employment and income in provinces with a large presence of small and medium-scale farmers. From May 2020 to October 2020, FAO implemented the project to “reduce soil degradation, and mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the livestock sector of Ecuador”. The project was implemented seven provinces, distributed in three geographic regions of the country (coastal Ecuador, the Andes and Amazon). The project had an impact on public policies, with the incorporation of climate-smart livestock farming as one of the lines of action for the agricultural sector. In terms of technical aspects, the preparation of online tools to monitor GHG emissions and to calculate climate risk and the adaptation capacity of the sector is noteworthy. One void shown in the project, throughout the consultation process with interested parties, was the lack of connections to the market and the private sector. This was not contemplated in the project design and arose as a recurring issue during the implementation
Year of publication: 2020Organization: Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO)
Topic: Changement climatique, Sécurité alimentaire, Participation
Language: English
Type of document: Technique
Geographical coverage: Amérique Latine
This study, the third of its type published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), adds further evidence that in mountain regions of developing countries, food insecurity, social isolation, environmental degradation, exposure to the risk of disasters and to the impacts of climate change, and limited access to basic services, especially in rural areas, are still prevalent and, under some circumstances, increasing. It also shows the technical challenges for producing more comprehensive and representative assessments based on scientific data, and providing a deeper understanding of the underlying factors of vulnerability of mountain people.
Year of publication: 2020Organization: Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO),
Topic: Sécurité alimentaire, Résilience
Language: English
Type of document: Technique
Geographical coverage: Global
Andean pastoralism, like other pastoral systems around the world, is under stress due to climate change, land tenure regimes, pressures to become sedentary, difficulties in interacting with market-based economies, isolation, and youth emigration. This paper presents the results of 4 environmental education interventions focusing on mountain environments, their biodiversity, environmental calendars, and llama caravans.
Year of publication: 2020Organization: Auteurs individuels
Topic: Éducation, Services environnementaux, Participation, Services sociaux
Language: English
Type of document: Scientifique
Geographical coverage: Amérique Latine
Climate change adaptation literature on pastoralists often embraces a systems approach that uses aggregate analysis, giving a false assumption of community homogeneity. Analyzing key adaptation practices among Maasai (agro-) pastoralists’ of Laikipia County, we outline how wealth, age and gender differentiate actors’ adaptation pathways. We argue that adaptation pathways are political processes highly negotiated by these elements of social differentiation and that individual actors adaptation opportunities are substantially shaped by their social positions.
Year of publication: 2020Organization: Auteurs individuels
Topic: Conflit
Language: English
Type of document: Technique
Geographical coverage: Afrique orientale
This survey of practice, produced by the Civil Affairs Team in DPET/DPO, is based on a review of current practices, challenges and opportunities in peacekeeping settings while also drawing from external expertise and resources that help illustrate the complex web of factors that undermine relations between herders and farmers in the African continent. The survey captures practices from Mali, Central African Republic, Darfur and Abyei, in Sudan, South Sudan and Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where UN peacekeepers support the prevention and/or mitigation of conflicts between farmer and herder communities, especially during the time of transhumance, working with a wide range of relevant stakeholders like national and local authorities; traditional and community leaders; civil society actors, and other international partners. While highlighting what is already done by UN peacekeepers to address transhumance-related conflicts, as well as underscoring the challenges they face, the survey of practice also provides concrete recommendations to further improve the impact of these intervention to support sustainable solutions.
Year of publication: 2020Organization: Auteurs individuels
Topic: Conflit
Language: English
Type of document: Technique
Geographical coverage: Afrique occidentale, Afrique centrale