- March Pastoral Economy YouTube PPT (YouTube)
- Download the February PPT (Key Messages)
- See More Resources (videos, articles, blogs, etc.)
- IYRP March: Maryam Niamir-Fuller on Economic Services of Global Rangelands (Art of Range podcast)
- Resources from FAO
- Le pastoralisme au Sahel: évaluation économique, chocs et stratégies d'adaptation: https://doi.org/10.4060/cd5829fr
- Documents from Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC)
- Banerjee, R., Barry, B., Jaquez, C., et al. (2021) Financing livestock trade: formal and informal finance in Kenya, Mali and Somalia. Technical report. London, UK: SPARC Knowledge (https://doi.org/10.61755/QCFI8260).
- This report examines how livestock traders in Kenya, Mali and Somalia finance theiroperations, finding that despite the growth of mobile payments, most rely on personal savingsand informal networks, with limited use of formal financial services.
- Bedelian, C. and Levine, S. (2025) Transforming pastoral livelihoods through marketinterventions: does the impact match expectations? Lessons from a decade ofinvestments in Somali Region, Ethiopia. Technical report. London, UK: SPARC Knowledge (https://doi.org/10.61755/NVBB2943).
- The report looks at general lessons about the development model and theory of change, and its appropriateness for pastoral economies, based on an internal impact assessment of market-based development programmes implemented over the past decade and more in Somali Regional State in Ethiopia.
- Humphrey, A., Jaquez, C., Levine, S., et al. (2021) Impacts of disruptions to livestock marketing in Sudan. Technical report. London, UK: SPARC Knowledge(https://doi.org/10.61755/CGIB4972).
- This report examines how the 2020 Hajj suspension affected low-income herders and livestock traders in Sudan. It draws on interviews and literature to explore export disruptions and optionsfor mitigating future shocks.
- Levine, S., Wiggins, S., Allen, M., et al. (2021) Livelihoods and markets in protractedconflict: a review of evidence and practice. Evidence review. London, UK: SPARC Knowledge (https://doi.org/10.61755/XUPB4400).
- This evidence review examines the impacts of protracted conflict on livelihoods and foodsecurity across 11 countries and assesses the effectiveness of responses to economic andsocial harm in varying contexts.
- Opitz-Stapleton, S., Alasia, J.I., Egemonye, O., et al. (2024) Impacts of Naira redesign onlivelihoods in Hayin Ade and Wuro Bappate. Abuja, Nigeria. Policy brief. London, UK: SPARC Knowledge (https://doi.org/10.61755/CLGX5621).
- This policy brief explores how Nigeria’s Naira redesign policy has deepened financialhardship for pastoralists and agro-pastoralists in two rural communities, highlighting the needfor support with digital access, ID registration and financial literacy to ensure inclusion in the formal economy.
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