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Mobility and livestock mortality in communally used pastoral areas: The impact of the 2005-2006 drought on livestock mortality in Maasailand

Journal Articles & Books
Octobre, 2011
Afrique
Afrique orientale

There is consensus that pastoral mobility is beneficial for both pastoralists and the environment. However, rapid change arising from multiple factors, including landscape fragmentation, sedentarization, and demographic drivers might affect the effectiveness of this pastoral coping strategy in times of drought. We investigate livestock mortality rates following the 2005 drought in four areas in Maasailand: the Maasai Mara, the Kitengela plains, the Amboseli, and the Simanjiro plains.

Moving herds, moving markets: Making markets work for African pastoralists

Journal Articles & Books
Décembre, 2013

Drawing on 15 cases from nine countries this books offers some solutions to the huge challenges pastoralists encounter in trying to sell what they produce. With liberal use of tables, diagrams and illustrations, it documents impacts, good practices and lessons in the marketing of pastoralist livestock and livestock products. It depicts the problems faced by pastoralists, and shows in practical terms how governments, development projects, the private sector and pastoralists themselves can deal with these issues.

Natural resources and rural agriculture: In balance or imbalance? The example of Botswana's rangelands

Reports & Research
Décembre, 1991
Botswana
Afrique
Afrique australe

Assesses the effect (balance or imbalance) of the present relationships between the natural resource base and human activities; examines the role of some potentially destabilising forces, i.e, international markets, government programmes and socio-economic stratification; and reviews government's role in terms of its contributions to prudent natural resource management and options for the promotion of sustainable rural development.

Participatory rangeland management planning and its implementation in Ethiopia

Conference Papers & Reports
Mars, 2015
Éthiopie
Afrique
Afrique orientale

The pastoral and agro-pastoral areas of Ethiopia cover around 65% of the country’s surface area. Rangeland resources are managed under collective common property arrangements, which are increasingly coming under pressure from both internal and external forces of change including alternative, but not necessarily ‘appropriate’, land uses.

Participatory analysis of vulnerability to drought in three agro-pastoral communities in the West African Sahel

Journal Articles & Books
Juillet, 2015
Sénégal
Mauritanie
Mali
Burkina Faso
Algérie
Niger
Nigéria
Tchad
Soudan
Soudan du Sud
Érythrée
Cameroun
République centrafricaine
Éthiopie
Afrique
Afrique occidentale

Drought is one of the major climatic hazards impacting on the various sectors including crop and livestock in the West African Sahel. Pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in the region are regularly affected by drought, with vulnerability differing with gender, age, wealth status (access to cropland and livestock endowment), geographic location, social networks, and previous exposure to drought. Effective interventions require regular monitoring of vulnerability to drought, for which various quantitative and qualitative approaches exist.