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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 14 Pastoral production in Mongolia from a gender perspective
… time use, and mobility. The research was carried out as part of the Policy Alternatives for Livestock Development The nature of pastoral production necessitates (PALD) project, to study and make policy the division of tasks. The men usually carry recommendations on …
Publication, 01 January 1994
Millions of Kenyans depend on the Ewaso Ngiro river and its tributaries, but over-abstraction and changing weather patterns are reducing river flows (Photo: Denis Onyodi/Kenya Red Cross Society, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Building research capacity for sustainable water and food security in drylands of sub-Saharan Africa (BRECcIA)
… ecosystems across sub-Saharan Africa, where rain-fed agriculture and pastoralism characterises local subsistence and is the mainstay of … Despite the priority accorded to food and water security in national policy and strategic development visions, progress towards sustainable … ultimately increase carbon emissions. What development discourse and policy interventions miss is the key point that climate variability and …
Project, 27 July 2018
Isiolo County, Kenya: dryland areas make up more than 80 per cent of Kenya's land and are home to some four million pastoralists (Photo: James Patison/IIED)
A new approach to climate resilient drylands agriculture
… basics that any production system needs to thrive.  "At present the policy and investment 'playing field' is very far from level. By reading … This book provides new and compelling community perspectives that policy-led strategies for the drylands need to adapt if they are to be … build their resilience to climate change. The  DLCI  for improved policy and practice in the Horn of Africa is a knowledge management and …
News, 27 April 2015
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The Unrelenting Persistence of Certain Narratives: An Analysis of Changing Policy Narratives about the ASALs in Kenya
… back their development, and for all concerned actors to translate the policy reforms into actual benefits for the ASALs and the country as a … Drylands and pastoralism … Persistence of Certain Narratives: An Analysis of Changing Policy Narratives about the ASALs in Kenya …
Publication, 01 June 2014
Hama Arba Diallo (Photo: Global Water Partnership)
Hama Arba Diallo: the universal man
… Drylands and pastoralism … Policy and planning …
Insight, 10 October 2014
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Report of workshop on nomadic education, Nakuru (26-28 January 2010)
… to accommodate mobility, for example through mobile schools and the policy framework for nomadic education. To build on this, Ministry of … Drylands and pastoralism …
Publication, 01 March 2010
Cover for 17574IIED.pdf
Catalysing famers’ influence in shaping law reform: Experience from Senegal
… in Senegal between 2002 and 2004, and considers similar public policy formulation initiatives by non-governmental actors in Senegal. …
Publication, 01 March 2015
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Land and Water Rights in the Sahel: Tenure challenges of improving access to water for agriculture
… The study supports a process of policy debate and exchange of experience on how to tackle issues raised … It involves a range of actors working to improve access to water - policy makers, development practitioners, user and producer … Drylands and pastoralism …
Publication, 01 March 2006
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Natural Resource Management and Land Policy in Developing Countries: Lessons learned and new challenges for the World Bank
… This paper looks at the World Bank’s involvement in land policy issues in forests and protected areas and in pastoral and … Natural Resource Management and Land Policy in Developing Countries: Lessons learned and new challenges for …
Publication, 01 January 2002
A pastoralist dwelling in Niger. Rural communities have learned to exploit the variability of dryland environments (Photo: IIED)
The end of desertification?
… affairs in the UN system – is currently processing a major policy statement on combating desertification, land degradation and drought, and promoting sustainable pastoralism and rangelands (PDF) . But all this work poses a problem. … countries with variable rainfall and persistent poverty. For better policy and governance, we need to reconsider the scientific …
Insight, 29 September 2016