[IYRPsupportgroup] FYI: Pastoralism & climate resilience: technical paper + policy brief

[olabode bashir]

Thanks a lot for sharing.

On Fri, Feb 3, 2023, 6:35 PM Ann Waters-Bayer <waters-bayer at web.de> wrote:

> *New publications by GIZ in cooperation with CELEP and IYRP2026 now online*
> : Advancing Sustainable Rural Development (giz.de)
> <https://www.giz.de/en/worldwide/104357.html>
>
> *Pastoralism and climate resilience: technical paper + policy brief
> <https://www.celep.info/pastoralism-climate-resilience-technical-paper-policy-brief/>*
>
> Based partly on a CELEP webinar on pastoralism and climate change
> <https://www.celep.info/celep-webinar-on-pastoralism-climate-change/> in
> December 2021, two publications by Saverio Krätli *et al*. were brought
> out by GIZ (German Agency for International Cooperation) in 2022:
>
>    1. Technical background paper “
>    <http://www.celep.info/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/giz2022-en-technical-background-paper-climate-resilience-and-pastoralism.pdf>*Pastoralism
>    and resilience of food production in the face of climate change*
>    <http://www.celep.info/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/giz2022-en-technical-background-paper-climate-resilience-and-pastoralism.pdf>”
>    (20pp)(
>    https://www.giz.de/en/downloads/giz2022-en-technical-background-paper-climate-resilience-and-pastoralism.pdf
>    )
>    2. Policy brief “
>    <http://www.celep.info/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/giz2022-en-policy-brief-climate-resilience-and-pastoralism.pdf>*Climate
>    resilience – what can we learn from pastoral systems in Africa’s drylands?
>    <http://www.celep.info/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/giz2022-en-policy-brief-climate-resilience-and-pastoralism.pdf>*”
>    (8pp)(
>    https://www.giz.de/en/downloads/giz2022-en-policy-brief-climate-resilience-and-pastoralism.pdf
>    )
>
> These draw attention to the lessons that pastoral systems can offer in the
> face of climate change, in particular with regard to the challenge of
> achieving global resilience to climate variability without depending on
> unsustainable energy inputs. They aim to provide an understanding of:
>
>    - pastoralism as livelihood and food production system specialised in
>    managing and benefitting from variability in climate and natural
>    environments;
>    - the key factors that support the resilience of pastoral systems, and
>    the role of non-climate stressors in pastoralists’ vulnerability to
>    climate hazards; and
>    - ways of capitalising on these lessons for pastoralism and other
>    livelihood systems in dryland areas and beyond, to address the challenge of
>    sustainably producing food given an unpredictable climate.
>
>
>
> *Dr Ann Waters-Bayer*
> *Agrecol Association for AgriCulture & Ecology*
> *Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP)*
> *International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists (IYRP2026) Global
> Coordination Group*
> *E: waters-bayer at web.de <waters-bayer at web.de> / waters-bayer at agrecol.de
> <waters-bayer at agrecol.de>*
> *W: www.agrecol.de <http://www.agrecol.de> / www.celep.info
> <http://www.celep.info> / www.iyrp.info <http://www.iyrp.info>*
>
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