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Climate change and conflict - reframing the debate
… of East Africa and the Sahel. IIED's work has aimed to challenge the misconceptions that portray drylands as unproductive wastelands and dryland production systems as … around climate and conflict. … Climate change … Drylands and pastoralism … Drylands: building climate resilience, productivity and …
Project, 17 April 2023
Drylands: volatile, vibrant and under-valued?
… Policymakers have historically undervalued drylands. As a result, they have either not invested in these areas or invested in the wrong things, using their misconceptions to justify the appropriation, fragmentation and … chains they feed.   The lack of an appropriate model for valuing pastoralism and drylands was perpetuating misconceptions and the …
Project, 14 July 2016
Introduction to drylands: building climate resilience, productivity and equity
… Covering about 40% of the Earth’s land surface, the drylands are home to 2.3 billion people. By developing strategies for … to lead productive and sustainable livelihoods.  But policymakers’ misconceptions mean that government policies rarely support community … that let policymakers view drylands as unproductive wastelands and pastoralism as a backward and unproductive land use system.   Ensure …
Article, 17 December 2012
Pastoralism and policy training: addressing misconceptions and informing dialogue
… consistently ignore scientific evidence on the sustainability of pastoralism and well-adapted local institutions and management … that will strengthen pastoralist strategies for exploiting the drylands’ highly variable and diverse conditions to lead sustainable … productivity and equity … Pastoralism and policy training: addressing misconceptions and informing dialogue …
Project, 17 December 2012
Archive of completed drylands and pastoralist projects
… exploring the impact of climate change on pastoralists living in the drylands is one of many videos IIED has helped produce to break down misconceptions and increase understanding of the drylands. … of pasture and rising tensions between herding and farming groups.  Pastoralism Journal: Research, Policy and Practice IIED and IUCN …
Article, 17 December 2012
Supporting pastoral mobility in East and West Africa
… brings together the words of pastoralists and experts from across the drylands of East and West Africa. Using scientific research data and information from the case studies above, it challenges persistent misconceptions that pastoralism is outmoded and uneconomic. Explaining the reasons behind …
Project, 17 December 2012
Valuing variability
… an asset to maximise productivity. But perceiving it as a hindrance, drylands policy has long worked against – rather than with – … to climate variability and extreme climate events and reinforcing misconceptions about drylands. A sustainable system Scientific evidence demonstrates that pastoralism is an ecologically efficient, sustainable system that …
Article, 17 December 2012
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Putting pastoralists on the policy agenda: Land alienation in southern Ethiopia
… in their communally-managed rangelands. However, fundamental misconceptions about the pastoral production system in Ethiopia (like in … in severity. … 14599IIED … 14599IIED … Eyasu Elias … Fayera Abdi … Drylands and pastoralism … Putting pastoralists on the policy agenda: Land alienation …
Publication, 01 July 2010
What’s in a narrative? In policy, everything or nothing
… Swift. We wanted to understand the policy narratives that describe pastoralism in Kenya, India and China, three countries where policies … herding. The media have a big role to play in correcting the many misconceptions that policymakers have about mobile pastoralism. But … pastoralists fare in the future. … Mike Shanahan … Communication … Drylands and pastoralism … What’s in a narrative? In policy, everything …
Blog, 28 September 2012