This project deals with improving pastoral risk management on East African rangelands.
This project attempts to strengthen pastoralists’ risk management strategies and practices this includes:
- asset diversification
- income diversification
- increased access to information
- increased access to external resources
Geographically the project is focused on southern Ethiopia and north-central Kenya.
The project’s priorities include:
- improvements in rural financial systems, marketing networks and education to allow more opportunistic diversification of livestock and human capita
- 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
- comparative evaluation of development investment options for various types of infrastructure, key institutions, or programs to improve pastoral risk management throughout the region