Pastoralism, policies and practice in the Horn and East Africa: A review of current trends - HPG Commissioned Reports

Natural Disasters in the Middle-East and North Africa With a Focus on Iran: 1900 to 2015

Background: Many types of natural disasters are sudden and calamitous events that create a large socioeconomic burden with significant negative impact on health care, social infrastructure, and the environment; especially in the low and middle income countries; therefore, it is necessary to reduce or control this kind of disasters by understanding the specific risks and negative impacts. Recogni...

Social protection in pastoral areas - HPG Commissioned Reports

In the Horn and East Africa, social protection providers fall into two main categories: informal and formal. Informal providers are communities and external social networks such as family members, relatives and other social structures outside pastoral systems. Strong informal social protection networks based on religious, clan or family affiliations have always played a vital role in pastoral c...

A review of emergency food security assessment practice in Ethiopia - HPG Commissioned Reports - Research reports and studies

Pastoralism and wildlife: historical and current perspectives in the East African rangelands of Kenya and Tanzania.

The relationship between pastoralists, their livestock, wildlife and the rangelands of East Africa is multi-directional, complex and long-standing. The tumultuous events of the past century, however, have rewritten the nature of this relationship, reshaping the landscapes that were created, and relied upon, by both pastoralists and wildlife. Presently, much of the interaction between wildlife a...

African pastoralism: genetic imprints of origins and migrations.

The genetic history of African cattle pastoralism is controversial and poorly understood. We reveal the genetic signatures of its origins, secondary movements, and differentiation through the study of 15 microsatellite loci in 50 indigenous cattle breeds spanning the present cattle distribution in Africa. The earliest cattle originated within the African continent, but Near East and European ge...