This technical brief looks at the factors impeding development in pastoralist regions, and suggests possible solutions to improve pastoralist livelihoods. The brief is organized around the community capitals framework, which combines two major lines of assessing livelihoods: livelihoods-centred approaches and economy-centred approaches. Rather than regarding pastoralists as a problem, policymakers should see them as a major and indispensable contributor to the development of sparsely populated, marginal areas.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Vétérinaires Sans Frontières (VSF)
Topic: Économie, Services environnementaux, Sécurité alimentaire, Jeunesse et égalité des sexes, Régime foncier, Participation, Services sociaux
Language: English, Italiano, Español
Type of document: Technique
Geographical coverage: Global
Ce bulletin politique incite à harmoniser des cadres législatifs nationaux et régionaux concernant les services de santé animale pour que les pasteurs notamment en région sahélienne puissent bénéficier de services de santé animale de qualité et à moindre coût. Des systèmes associant agents communautaires de santé animale et docteurs vétérinaires sont indispensables pour assurer des soins de santé animale de qualité. Au niveau régional, la priorité doit être donnée aux dispositifs locaux participatifs à l’image des services vétérinaires privés de proximité.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Vétérinaires Sans Frontières (VSF)
Topic: Services sociaux
Language: Nederlands, English, Français
Type of document: Technique, Politiques et législation
Geographical coverage: Afrique occidentale
Pastoralism is one of the dominant economies of the Sahel and is by far the main economy on the fringes of the Sahara, a zone that has recently become very unstable. It is estimated that about 50 million people rely on pastoralism for their only or a main part of their livelihood in Sub-Saharan Africa; about half of them are located in the Sahel and the Saharan fringes, and of these about 70 percent are poor. The insecurity and instability in these areas directly lead to increased poverty of already poor pastoralists by interfering with their mobility. Competition over natural resources, especially land, has become an issue of major concern and cause of conflict between the Sahel’s pastoral and farming populations. Over the last several decades, the World Bank’s activities to develop this region have included improving the livelihoods of pastoralists. This note seeks to offer guidance to international, national, and local decision makers on the drivers of conflict and instability that are most related to pastoral communities, as well as possible measures to reduce violence and enhance stability in the Sahel. This note attempts to bring together two dimensions related to development: pastoral livelihoods resilience and conflict analysis.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Banque mondiale
Topic: Conflit, Résilience
Language: English
Type of document: Technique
Geographical coverage: Afrique occidentale
The goal of this film is to provide an overview of herders’ traditional ecological knowledge. The herders interviewed are traditional herders who possess a rich knowledge mostly inherited from the family and previous generations, and tested and adapted during their personal life. This film was made for the Regional Assessment for Europe and Central Asia of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). A summary of the herders’ understandings, knowledge and arguments can be found here.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Auteurs individuels
Topic: Services environnementaux, Les savoirs autochtones
Language: English, Magyar
Type of document: Vidéos
Geographical coverage: Europe
This report is important for pastoralists as it explicitly mentions pastoralists in the introduction: “The same applies to pastoralist communities. Converting (pastoral areas) to sedentary agriculture evokes the idea that it is a win-win solution: poor people get their land, sometimes even with formal private titles, while the remainder of the pastoralist or shifting cultivation areas are then taken over by the state. Or, entire communities are just as easily relocated, since shifting cultivation and pastoralist fields are often categorized as state-claimed “empty” land."
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Union européenne (EU)
Topic: Régime foncier
Language: English
Type of document: Scientifique
Geographical coverage: Global
This note seeks to offer guidance to international, national, and local decision makers on the drivers of conflict and instability that are most related to pastoral communities, as well as possible measures to reduce violence and enhance stability in the Sahel. It attempts to bring together two dimensions related to development: pastoral livelihoods resilience and conflict analysis.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Banque mondiale
Topic: Conflit
Language: English
Type of document: Technique
Geographical coverage: Afrique occidentale, Afrique centrale
Yak is specially adapted to high-altitude environments and is a flagship species for the Hindu Kush Himalayan region. It plays a key role not only in agrobiodiversity conservation and maintaining high-altitude rangeland ecosystems, but also in cultural traditions and livelihood strategies. But yak are coming under increasing pressure with closed borders and restrictions on grazing and movement, and yak herders are facing immense livelihood challenges.
This volume aims to enhance our understanding of yak in the region by bringing together 14 articles from Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, and Pakistan covering a wide range of subjects related to yak raising in the Hindu Kush Himalayas. It provides valuable insights that will help in developing plans for yak genetic conservation, pastoral development, and management measures to enhance system resilience and the adaptive capacity of local communities to ongoing and potential changes.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Centre international de mise en valeur intégrée des montagnes (ICIMOD)
Topic: Changement climatique, Services environnementaux, Peuples autochtones, Résilience
Language: English
Type of document: Technique
Geographical coverage: Asie centrale, Asie du Sud
This catalogue of land use options in Tajikistan is designed for facilitators and community mobilizers to be used in community workshops and at other occasions. The presented land use practices are adapted to the prevailing soil and climate conditions, land use systems and related problems of Tajikistan. The catalogue is also available in Tajik.
Year of publication: 2016Organization: Office allemand de la coopération international
Topic: Régime foncier
Language: English, тоҷикӣ / تاجیکی
Type of document: Technique
Geographical coverage: Asie centrale