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Case study on approaches for supporting pastoralist groups facing climate change effects in Tanzania
Publication, 20 April 2017
Farmer and animals walking through a drylands area in Chad
Countering desertification and defusing climate wars: why myths matter
Insight, 18 December 2024
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Resource Atlas of Wajir County, Kenya:Community-based mapping of pastoralist resources and their attributes
… The policy and institutional environment in Kenya is supportive of pastoral … Drylands and pastoralism …
Publication, 01 February 2016
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Youth participation in capturing pastoralist knowledge for policy processes (PLA 64)
… process, indigenous pastoralist knowledge was transformed into policy knowledge that could be taken up and used by government policy makers and development partners such as aid agencies and NGOs. … Youth participation in capturing pastoralist knowledge for policy processes (PLA 64) …
Publication, 01 December 2011
A stone gabion constructed to control erosion across a gully in the Namaqualand region. (Photo: Halcyone Muller / Conservation South Africa)
EbA Evidence and Policy: South Africa
… climate change adaptation : strengthening the evidence and informing policy' (EbA Evidence and Policy) . Working with local partners in 12 countries, the project aims to gather practical evidence and develop country-specific policy guidance on how EbA can best be implemented. What are we doing in …
Project, 31 May 2018
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Media perceptions and portrayals of pastoralists in Kenya, India and China
… pasture and water – that are patchily distributed in space and time. Pastoralism can make major contributions to food security, livelihoods … prosperity. However, these benefits often go unacknowledged – by policy makers, donors and the public at large. This is in part because of development and media narratives that paint pastoralism as something bad that needs to change. This Gatekeeper paper …
Publication, 01 April 2013
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Our other sites and networks
… generation and learning across sectors. Website  | Project page Pastoralism in Development – free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) 2023 - ongoing This MOOC on pastoralism in development provides an entry point for understanding … ecosystems. Website  |  Project page Nature-based Solutions policy platform 2018 - ongoing An interactive online policy platform on …
Page, 30 September 2022
Men present findings on a large map at the front of a community meeting
How can we incorporate local knowledge into climate planning and policy? …Maps!
… knowledge to be recognised and incorporated into planning and policy where for too long it was excluded. Mapping the problem To … tools so local priorities and knowledge are included in government policy and implemented. It has been key to making it possible to … that government uses, translating informal knowledge into formal policy and planning. This encouraged year-round grazing for those …
Insight, 17 January 2020
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Local Networks as a Tool for Influencing Policy: Experiences of the GDRN5 network in Mali
… Drylands and pastoralism … Local Networks as a Tool for Influencing Policy: Experiences of the GDRN5 network in Mali …
Publication, 01 January 2003
The Nebbou area, between Ouagadougou and Leo, a dry reservoir used for the manufacture of handmade bricks in Burkina Faso (Photo: Ollivier Girard/Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR))
Archive of completed drylands and pastoralist projects
… portrayal of the drylands, our capacity-building approach and our policy influence. It recommended: A continued geographic focus in West … of pasture and rising tensions between herding and farming groups.  Pastoralism Journal: Research, Policy and Practice IIED and IUCN  provided seed funding for the journal Pastoralism: research, policy and practice . The journal publishes …
Article, 17 December 2012