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The global infrastructure of pastoralist systems

If you understand stabilization and expansion of herder outputs and outcomes — in particular household livelihoods — are central to pastoralism, then there are varieties of pastoralism. This is largely because efforts to achieve stable and expanding livelihoods vary with the critical...

9 June 2023

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Arts-for-change: environmental deliberation in Africa

Collaborative art-making may promote relationships between groups with little experience of engaging together directly in east and west Africa, in contexts where policy dialogue is already emotive and value-based. Arts based methods in democratic deliberation and 'arts-for-change' In...

7 June 2023

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Access to pastures in Northeastern Turkey: Auctions, bans, and interrupted pathways

Turkey hosts many mobile pastoral communities, most of which have become sedentary over the last few centuries. Even the most well-known mobile pastoralist groups still operating in the country often face obstacles to their movements, with consequences for livelihoods, animals and...

M. Fatih Tatari

2 June 2023

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China and the fourth industrial revolution: a call for collaborative research

Recent blogs on this site have called for academic collaboration and policy coordination with China to address global challenges including climate change and biodiversity loss, pandemics and overuse of anti-microbials, and building sustainable food systems. Here we argue for the importance of...

Jennifer Holdaway, Fellow, International Institute for Asian Studies, University of Leiden
Sarah Cook, Visiting Researcher, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of Witwatersrand

2 June 2023

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Citizen Science: lessons in pandemic preparedness from Sierra Leone

Our research explored how communities responded to two epidemics in Sierra Leone. Here we highlight some of our findings, emphasising the importance of taking note of what communities themselves infer from their experiences of epidemic diseases. Governments talk a good deal about pandemic...

Paul Richards, Professor, Njala University & 3 others

1 June 2023

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