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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetPastoralism for Resilience and Sustainable Development
Helping to protect and develop livelihoods in the world’s drylands
2019Also available in:
No results found.Africa’s arid and semi-arid areas are home to 268 million pastoralists who depend on livestock production for their livelihoods, food security, income and wellbeing. When adapting to the different ecosystems of the drylands, pastoralists create economic value by transforming scarce natural resources. In recent decades, pastoralist systems have become highly vulnerable to increased uncertainty and insecurity arising from threats such as neglect, violence, displacement, precarious land rights, animal diseases and climate change. FAO has developed a comprehensive programme to strengthen the resilience of pastoral communities and improve their livelihoods. Implementation will involve government authorities, national and local stakeholders, and pastoralist organizations, creating resilience hubs to further build pastoralist capacity and ensure ownership of the outcomes. -
Book (series)Making way: developing national legal and policy frameworks for pastoral mobility 2022
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No results found.Mobility is a vital strategy employed by pastoralists to capitalize on the scarce availability of resources in variable environments, making pastoralism economically feasible and environmentally sustainable. Through mobility, pastoralists can produce animal-sourced products that provide food and income security to populations in the world’s rangelands. Such a practice also provides a range of benefits to the environment while fostering the capacity to adapt to changing social and natural environments. With a few exceptions, policies have largely not kept up with new scholarship and development discourse that acknowledges the importance of mobility to pastoralism. There is a lag in and resistance to legislating in favor of mobility. The overall objective of this handbook is to guide the development of legal and policy frameworks for securing mobility for various pastoral production systems and practices. This handbook calls for the legal recognition and securing of pastoral mobility as a way of safeguarding and facilitating a continuous stream of economic and social benefits for pastoralists, countries, and the environment. It facilitates a deeper understanding of pastoral mobility through examples and case studies drawn from various parts of the world and identifies considerations to be borne in mind when legislating for mobility. -
BookletSouth Sudan: Contributions to mitigating conflict between mobile pastoral communities
How the Pastoralist Livelihoods and Education Field Schools approach addresses conflict drivers and strengthens resilience in cattle camps
2024Also available in:
No results found.This learning brief documents the main lessons drawn from the South Sudan country investment project entitled Resilient Pastoral Livelihoods and Education implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and its partners. It showcases key learning on the role of the Pastoralist Livelihoods and Education Field School (PLEFS) approach in enhancing the food security and livelihoods resilience of mobile pastoral communities and households in South Sudan’s cattle camps. More specifically, this learning brief explores how and to what extent an approach like PLEFS contributes to mitigating conflict and building resilience in pastoral areas. The document unpacks the various building blocks of the PLEFS approach, to identify the extent to which they constituted contributory pathways to sustaining peace. It presents measured impacts and effects, witnessed by leaders and members of cattle camps, about the transformation of conflict dynamics. It also identifies opportunities created by PLEFS to establish new paradigms among pastoralist communities, in the economic, social and cultural dimensions of cattle camp life.
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