Exploring ways that data can be used to better understand and manage drought impacts on food security in Kenya
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Advancing research on pastoral livelihoods in the face of environmental shocks
With SPARC, we are co-funding two post-docs working on pastoralism in drought affected East Africa
Reimagining local drought early action and responses in northern Kenya
Discussing drivers and blockers to effective local early action against droughts
Introducing Jameel Observatory post-doctoral fellow – Tahira Mohamed
Tahira works on the nexus between short-term humanitarian response and long-term resilience programming
Introducing Jameel Observatory post-doctoral fellow – Samuel Derbyshire
Sam Derbyshire works on socio-economic indicators and triggers in drought early warning systems.
Early action gets aid to communities before the vultures arrive
Guyo Roba, Gary Watmough, and Stephen Mutiso of the Jameel Observatory explain how they aim to enhance drought preparation through collaboration and action.
How livestock data can counter food and climate shocks
A Livestock Data for Decisions community meeting examined ways to enhance the contributions of livestock data to counter food and climate shocks in the drylands of East Africa.
Livestock insurance for East Africa pastoralists a long term focus of ILRI
This post introduces regional opportunities to scale out index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) in the Horn of Africa
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