By Simon Richards April 2024 This briefing paper is one of six on specific topics of importance affecting pastoralists and their livelihood systems in Africa. It supplements the parent document...
By Magda Nassef April 2024 This briefing paper presents African pastoralism as an adaptation to uncertain and changeable climate, as well as some of the main challenges that compromise pastoralists’...
By David Pertaub April 2024 This brief on water in the drylands of Africa will explore the critical importance of water governance not only for water access and maintenance of water infrastructure,...
By Elizabeth Stites April 2024 If asked to describe gender roles in pastoralist settings in Africa, many development practitioners and policy makers might state that men control the livestock and...
By Evan Easton-Calabria , Abdirahman Ahmed , Dawud Mohamed , Aarti Singh December 2023 While anticipatory action (AA) is commonly designed to address one specific hazard such as drought, many...
By Elizabeth Stites , Achiba Gargule , Padmini Iyer , Helen Young Pastoralist mobility underpins resilience, food security, nutrition, and human and animal health. This learning brief presents...
By Helen Young , Achiba Gargule , Elizabeth Stites , Anastasia Marshak , Judith Munga , Elijah Odundo , Sophie Ochola The resilience of pastoralism as a livelihood system stands out, even with the...
By Anastasia Marshak , Ayane Ezaki , Elijah Odundo , Judith Munga , Achiba Gargule , Elizabeth Stites , Sophie Ochola , Helen Young Parts of northern Kenya face persistently high rates of child acute...
A new report finds that, compounding the humanitarian crisis, hundreds of thousands of children living in opposition-held areas in Northwest Syria are being denied access to their rights to...
AUTHORS Daniel Maxwell, Matthew Day, Peter Hailey Throughout 2022, as the situation worsened in the Horn of Africa, there were numerous calls from journalists and humanitarian leaders for famine to...