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Africa: New Platform Aims to Bring Pastoralists' Voices to Global Decision-Making Stage
UN News, 27 April 2015
Millions of pastoralists - from the Bedouin of North Africa to the Sherpa in Nepal and Navajo in North America - will benefit from a new online knowledge hub launched today by the… Read more »
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Kenya: Pastoralists Protest Wanton Destruction of Indigenous Forest
IPS, 25 April 2015
Armed with twigs and placards, enraged residents from a semi-pastoral community 360 km north of Kenya's capital, Nairobi, protested this week against wanton destruction of… Read more »
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Africa: Platform for Pastoralists Aims to Give a Voice to Millions
FAO, 27 April 2015
New initiative aims to bring pastoral concerns into global policy dialogue Read more »
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Kenya: Maasai Blame Government for Doing Little to Save Their Livestock From Drought
The Star, 18 April 2015
THE ongoing drought in most semi-arid lands in the country has dealt a devastating blow to the survival of pastoralists in the area. Read more »
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Kenya: Drought-Hit Herders Lose Out in Cut-Price Land Sales
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 13 April 2015
At the Kiserian shopping centre on the southwest fringes of Kenya's capital Nairobi, Lemarpe Sonkoyo has been begging for over a year. Read more »
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Tanzania: Pastoralists Push to Address Climate Change
Daily News, 6 April 2015
THEY move from place to place searching for water and green pastures for their livestock and now nomadic pastoralists from all over the country have felt the need to sit and… Read more »
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Rwanda: Eliminating Sheep and Goat Plague By 2030
New Times, 1 April 2015
It is something extraordinary when a disease is eradicated from the face of the earth, as great a human accomplishment as inventing the internet or putting a man on the moon. Read more »
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Kenya: Cows May Graze in Game Parks, but Are They Safe?
The Star, 18 April 2015
For a week or so, rains pounded the most parts of the country with such force that if it had continued like that it would have caused more damage than good. Yet all over the… Read more »
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Kenya: Livestock Migration to Tana Delta
The Star, 1 April 2015
There is mass exodus of cattle, goats and sheep from the remote parts of Tana River county to greener areas in Tana Delta after rains pounded the area last week. Read more »
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Sudan: Ifad Supports Livestock Marketing and Climate Resilience in Sudan
IFAD, 31 March 2015
A new US $119.2 million programme in the Sudan has been designed to increase food security, and improve incomes and climate resilience for pastoralist communities by strengthening… Read more »
Platform to Bring Pastoralists' Voices to Global Stage
The UN has launched a new online knowledge hub that will help raise the voices of pastoralist communities in international policy debates to strengthen their agricultural livelihoods.
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Traditional pastoral and farming communities hope the new pastoral bill will adress land conflict by clearly demarcating boundaries and identifying corridors for the movement of ... Read more »
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Competition for water between pastoralists and farmers has often turned deadly, but an agreement in the Rift Valley has changed that. Read more »
