This is the eighth in a series of blog posts that bring together PASTRES work from 2018-2023 around a number of themes. In this post, we discuss the role of moral economies in pastoral systems.
PASTRES work has highlighted how standard approaches to social assistance, humanitarian aid, social protection, and insurance are often not well-suited to pastoral areas. Once again, this is because of the prevailing conditions of variability and uncertainty.
Standard social assistance and insurance interventions tend to be designed around a simple package targeted often at individuals or households, and responding to a singular event. Delivery assumes stability and fixity, and such systems are often not good at engaging with mobile populations through conventional registration and targeting systems.
This article is from PASTRES, a research programme that aims to learn from pastoralists about responding to uncertainty and resilience, with lessons for global challenges. PASTRES is co-hosted by IDS.
