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The paper reports on a “University of the Bush“ seminar held in the Borana area in March 2009, where over 50 pastoralists from southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya from several ethnic groups debated key pastoral development issues and the question of innovation in pastoral systems. 

Year of publication: 2009
Organization:  
Topic: Innovation
Language: English
Type of document: Technique
Geographical coverage: Afrique orientale

This film shows the role of pastoralists in conserving biodiversity and visually transports policymakers into the situation of pastoralists.

Year of publication: 2009
Organization: Ligue des peuples pasteurs (LPP) 
Topic: Services environnementaux, Peuples autochtones
Language: English
Type of document: Vidéos
Geographical coverage: Asie du Sud

This guide is designed to help communities and policy-makers at local and national levels make informed choices regarding land use, business ventures, and public policy in pastoral areas, particularly the Maasai Steppe and other semi-arid parts of East Africa.

Formerly nomadic herders are settling and becoming agro-pastoralists, and subsistence and commercial farmers are plowing the rangeland that sustained both livestock and wildlife. Conflicts are emerging between farmers and herders; wildlife and people; newcomers and traditionalists.

The guide is intended for practitioners working on participatory natural resource use and management. It will be useful for district and village officers, the private sector and government representatives, NGOs and development agencies involved in the processes of land-use planning and natural resource management.

Year of publication: 2009
Organization: Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO) 
Topic: Conflit, Services environnementaux, Régime foncier, Organisation, Participation
Language: English, Kiswahili
Type of document: Technique
Geographical coverage: Afrique orientale

This report reviews the causes, scale, consequences of, and responses to pastoral conflicts in the border region of Kenya, Sudan, and Uganda, utilizing methodological tools such as key informant interviews, retrospective analysis, and a thorough review of available literature.

Year of publication: 2009
Organization: Auteurs individuels 
Topic: Conflit
Language: English
Type of document: Scientifique
Geographical coverage: Afrique orientale

This report combines a desktop survey and an in-depth study of Kenya’s legal framework and the extent to which it protects the country’s indigenous peoples. The report often takes reference to indigenous pastoralist groups in Kenya including the Endorois, Borana, Gabra, Maasai, Pokot, Samburu, Turkana and Somali. 

Year of publication: 2009
Organization: Organisation internationale du Travail 
Topic: Peuples autochtones
Language: English
Type of document: Technique, Scientifique
Geographical coverage: Afrique orientale

In addressing the challenges facing mountain agricultural communities today, it is important to remember that mountain agriculture has developed hand in hand with pastoralism. Both large and small livestock sustain mountain communities, providing resources that complement those provided through agriculture. Pastoralism is not a strategy of last resort for agriculturalists pushed into marginal habitats. In fact, on the southern slopes of the Great Himalaya in Nepal, pastoralism has permitted agricultural communities to thrive and, in some cases, to extend their use of upper elevations into areas where agriculture is either marginal or impossible. A vertical look at lower, middle and upper altitude agropastoral practices provides insight into some different ways in which livestock management and cultivation interact within the larger context of mountain ecology.
 

Year of publication: 2009
Organization: Auteurs individuels 
Topic: Changement climatique, Économie, Peuples autochtones, Régime foncier, Résilience, Value addition
Language: English
Type of document: Technique
Geographical coverage: Asie du Sud

This paper addresses the impacts of climate change in Mongolia asking what legal instruments can help to assure the adaptation of pastoralism - being the predominant economic activity and mode of life of the rural population - to the changing conditions. The analysis shows that securing the mobility of herders and their access to the relevant natural resources (pasture land, water, salt-licks) is a key feature for the adaptation to climate change and the corresponding risk management.

Year of publication: 2009
Organization: Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO) 
Topic: Changement climatique, Régime foncier, Résilience
Language: English
Type of document: Technique
Geographical coverage: Asie centrale

Une liste de 10 idées fausses est présentée et débattue .

Year of publication: 2008
Organization: Union internationale pour la conservation de la nature (IUCN) 
Topic: Économie, Services environnementaux, Régime foncier
Language: English, Français, Español
Type of document: Technique
Geographical coverage: Global