• International Institute for Environment and Development, Drylands (IIED)

The IIED is an international policy research institute and non governmental body working for more sustainable and equitable global development. The drylands programme has the objective to promote better and more sustainable livelihoods for people in Africa’s drylands. This involves carrying out research together with African and European partners on policy issues of direct concern to poor people living in Africa, and building the capacities of these and other groups to act on the results of this knowledge in an informed and equitable manner.

Link : (IIED Drylands)
Contact:drylands@iied.org

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• Oversees Development Institute, Pastoral Development Network (PDN)

The Pastoral Development Network represents a world-wide network of researchers, administrators and extension personnel interested in the issues of pastoralism and rangelands. Between 1976 and 1996 the PDN was managed by ODI and published regular mailings including newsletters and a wide ranging series of papers on pastoralism and related issues. There were also a number of other related publications.

Link : (PDN)
Contact Person: r.chapman@odi.org.uk

• International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Project: Improving the effectivness of action to reduce poverty and vulnerability of pastoralists

The goal of the ILRI project Improving the effectivness of action to reduce poverty and vulnerability of pastoralists is to forge stronger links between researchers and policymakers and to motivate a new, more evidence-based discussion of the underlying causes and consequences of poverty and possible approaches towards its alleviation in pastoral areas.

Link : (ILRI, pastoral)
Contact Person: Patti Kristjanson

• GL-CRSP Pastoral Risk Management Project (PARIMA)

The PARIMA research group recognizes poverty and lack of personal empowerment as the core problems facing pastoralists in attaining sustainable production systems and healthy environments. Using a research-based approach, they thus seek to help facilitate interventions in the following priority areas:Improvements in rural financial systems, marketing networks and education to allow more opportunistic diversification of livestock and human capital; Improvements in the flow and capture of information to enhance efficiency in marketing and resource allocation; Facilitation of conflict mitigation and problem-solving concerning natural resource tenure; and Comparative evaluation of development investment options for various types of infrastructure, key institutions, or programs to improve pastoral risk management throughout the region.

Link : (PARIMA)
Contact Person: Dr. D. L. Coppock

• International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)

Established in 1977, the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) is one of the 15 centers strategically located all over the world and supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). With its main research station and offices based in Aleppo, Syria, ICARDA works through a network of partnerships with national, regional and international institutions, universities, non-governmental organizations and ministries in the developing world; and with advanced research institutes in industrialized countries.

Link : (ICARDA)
Contact:icarda@cgiar.org

• Feinstein International Center

The Feinstein International Center strives to improve the lives and livelihoods of communities caught up in complex emergencies, war, and other crises. Established in 1996 as part of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, the Center carries out field-based research in complex emergency environments. These include Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Sri-Lanka, and many other areas affected by humanitarian crises.

The Center's research--on the politics and policy of aiding the vulnerable, on protection and rights in crisis situations, and on the restoration of lives and livelihoods--feeds into both its teaching and its long-term partnerships with humanitarian and human rights agencies.


Link : (Feinstein)
Contact:fic@tufts.edu

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• Dry Zone Pastoral Research Pole at the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD)

The Dry Zone Pastoral Research Pole, is working on the one hand on the dynamics of pastoral systems and their degree of vulnerability, and on the other hand on the interactions between social and biological systems. It also analyses the organizational levels in pastoral societies and develops decision support tools to boost the capacities of basic communities. This should serve to promote traditional resource management methods, improve access to land ownership for animal production, and increase the contribution made by pastoral systems to national economies.


Link : (CIRAD Pastoral Research)
Contact Person:Amadou Tamsir Diop

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• Eldis Gateway to Development Information, Pastoralism Resource Guide (Eldis Pastoralism)

The Patoralism guide is edited by a team based at the Eldis programe. Eldis is one of a family of knowledge services from the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex. The site offers information on publications, projects, websites and people engaged in the field of pastoralism. Furhtermore it has a newsfeed and a discussion forum on pastoral issues.


Link : (Eldis Pastoralism)
Contact Person: Alan Stanley

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• Drylands Research, Somerset, United Kingdom

The Drylands Research is an informal consortium committed to understanding the linkages between policy strategies, long-term change, environmental management and rural livelihoods in semi-arid areas. It was established in 1998, to carry out work on long term change and policy issues in dryland management in African countries. These studies were concluded with a series of workshops in 2000-2001.


Link : (Drylands)
Contact: enquiries@drylandsresearch.org.uk

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• The Livestock Development Group (LDG)

The Livestock Development Group at the University of Reading Uk is a multidisciplinary team including economists, anthropologists, sociologists, veterinary medicine, and range sciencists, dedicated to meeting global poverty alleviation goals via demand lead research on livestock related isues.

Link : (LDG)
Contact: ldg@rdg.ac.uk

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• Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA)

The Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA) is a regional membership-based and donor-supported research and capacity-building organization whose mission is to promote dialogue and interaction between researchers and policy-makers in Eastern and Southern Africa with a view to enhancing the impact of research on policy-making and development planning. Its headquarters is based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Link : (OSSREA)
Contact:ossrea@ethionet.et

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• L'Association française de pastoralisme (AFP)

The objective of the association is to achieve sustainable developpement of the pastoral livestock sector by supporting scientific, technical and cultural approaches of pastoralism.


Link : (AFP)
Contact: info@pastoralisme.org

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• Natural Resource Institute Research, Advisory and Consultancy Projects on Pastoralism (NRI Pastoral)

NRI is a specialized Institute and School of the University of Greenwich. NRI works in partnership with a wide range of stakeholders in natural-resource development and management, from major international and national development agencies to community-based organisations and small-to-medium enterprises. A particular strength of NRI lies in the integration of diverse skills relevant to natural resource management and development, from a range of natural and social sciences. This page highlights several ongoing and recent NRI projects in the field of pastoralism.


Link on the Initiative : (NRI Pastoral)
Contact Person: John Morton

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• The Systemwide Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi)

The Systemwide Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi) is one of several intercenter initiatives of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). Experience has shown that institutions of collective action and property rights play an important role in how people use natural resources, which in turn shapes the outcomes of production systems. This systemwide program examines the formation and effectiveness of voluntary, community-level organizations and property institutions as they relate to natural resource management. The issues of collective action and property rights are of special concern to the CGIAR because of their effect on technology adoption, natural resource management, and poverty alleviation.


Link on the Initiative : (CAPRi)
Contact Person: capri@cgiar.org

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