Pastoralists’ high reliability networks are critical for building resilience
Pastoralists in the Horn of Africa are emerging from a devastating three-year drought. Structural challenges—including conflict, loss of grazing lands...
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Addressing dryland policy disconnects and their effects on pastoralists in Eastern Africa
Facing variability and insecurity due to climate change as well as environmental and human-generated shocks and uncertainties, policies on East Africa’s drylands need a ‘reset’
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Key note address by Prof. Ian Scoones during the policy convening held on 8th February at the ILRI Campus Nairobi
Over the last decades, there have been huge investments in addressing disasters in the drylands of eastern Africa. You only have to travel around northern Kenya to see the signs of numerous projects focused on drought...
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Overcoming policy and practice disconnects to build dryland resilience from below
On 8 February, the Centre for Research and Development in the Drylands, the Jameel Observatory for Food Security Early Action at ILRI and the Feinstein International Centre at Tufts University are convening a dialogue among researchers, practitioners, and policy shapers to join up efforts to build pastoralist resilience to shocks ...
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