Young pastoralists in northern Kenya illustrate opportunities and challenges of camel keepers and producers
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Reliable infrastructure: Pastoralism, pathways to prosperity
Reliable infrastructure is a key enabler of better livelihoods for dryland communities – images from a 2024 photovoice project
Images of pastoralism, pathways to prosperity
Images illustrating lives and livelihoods of pastoralists in northen Kenya
Research accelerator project on future earth observation systems for drought management
Research to identify next generation earth observation services and tools for East Africa’s drylands
Drought warnings save lives, what about livelihoods?
Rahma Hassan and Sam Derbyshire explore when and how anticipatory actions can best meet the needs of pastoralist communities
Finding the right balance: Addressing Africa’s demands for livestock feed
Last week, livestock feed experts developed plans to better monitor livestock feed ‘balances’ across Africa.
Escaping dryland poverty traps and unlocking prosperity: Lessons from Index-Based Livestock Insurance
How index-based livestock insurance scaled from a small pilot project in Kenya to a design that underpins drought risk management products and policies across Africa.
Drylands Summer School: capacity building for dryland resilience
The Observatory partnered in the second Drylands Summer School on agrosilvopastoral systems
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