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Cover for G03172.pdf
Planning and costing agricultural adaptation to climate change in the pastoral livestock system of Tanzania
… involving temporary and permanent migration). From this study, some policy-relevant recommendations have been formulated: 1. The need to …
Publication, 01 August 2011
Cover for X176IIED.pdf
Stakeholder Participation in Policy Processes in Ethiopia
… Drylands and pastoralism … Stakeholder Participation in Policy Processes in Ethiopia …
Publication, 01 January 2000
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Stakeholder Perceptions of Agricultural Policies in Kenya
… Drylands and pastoralism …
Publication, 01 January 2000
Members of the Zimbabwe Homeless People's Federation learn techniques for building houses on land that is affected by climate-related hazards, including waterlogging. Picture: David Dodman.
12 Christmas crackers from IIED
… in urban areas. It warns that climate change will only make this policy gap worse, because climate change impacts will affect not only … paper or read the press release . 3. Counting the costs: replacing pastoralism with irrigated agriculture in the Awash Valley, Ethiopia … argue that the results of this comparison are a foregone conclusion. Pastoralism is often viewed as a primitive, unproductive way of life  –  …
Article, 27 December 2013
2017: pastoralists in Isiolo county in Kenya are digging for water in dried-up river beds. Agricultural insurance schemes can help pastoralists and farmers be more resilient to climate shocks (Photo: Denis Onyodi/KRCS)
Insuring against climate risk in Kenya
… shocks. Plans are also at an advanced stage to secure a development policy loan from the World Bank that would provide a Catastrophic Draw … – to ensure sustainable recovery.  The government's draft policy on disaster risk management and the legislation currently being … in Economics from the University of Nairobi and has 10 years of policy relevant experience in the area of economic and development …
Insight, 06 June 2017
Cover for 9310IIED.pdf
Micro-policies on land tenure in three villages in Bam province, Burkina Faso. Local strategies for exchanging land
… Drylands and pastoralism …
Publication, 01 January 2004
Cover for 9556IIED.pdf
Securing the commons in an era of privatisation: policy and legislative challenges. Summary conclusions of the second international workshop of the Co-Govern network, Nakuru, Kenya, 25-28 October 2004
… The focus of the workshop, and of this report , is on the policy and legislative challenges raised by the commons in an era where … and international (the Convention on Bio-Diversity). Can policy and legal frameworks help secure the commons against resource … by and within local communities? What are the linkages between policy/legislative frameworks and local practice? The report covers the …
Publication, 01 January 2005
Cover for 7270IIED.pdf
Drought Management: The farmers' strategies and their policy implications
… Drylands and pastoralism … Drought Management: The farmers' strategies and their policy implications …
Publication, 01 January 1990
A group of people gather around a pile of potatoes with mountains as a backdrop
Indigenous Peoples’ food systems hold the key to feeding humanity
… the economic importance of Indigenous food systems. In Chad, pastoralism contributes about 40% of GDP, in Kenya, COVID-19 is fuelling … industrial agriculture. Indigenous Peoples are largely left out of policy discussions and face widespread marginalisation and racial …
Insight, 23 October 2020
Cover for 7355IIED.pdf
Role of NGOs in Reforming Natural Resource Management Policies in Burkina Faso
… Drylands and pastoralism …
Publication, 01 January 1996