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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.

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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »