Tagline: An inclusive approach to Pastoral Resilience
Champion: Abdrahmane Wane
Team: PTVC, LSE, CIRAD, PPZS, Producer Organizations, CILSS, ....
Informed investments to improve resilience of people and ecosystems in pastoral areas through enhanced cross-scales stakeholder platforms
The financial and psychological burden of climate, economic, political and sanitary shocks remain high. In the Sahel, for example, repetitive droughts (1968-74, 1983-84, 2002-03, 2005, 2009, 2010) have had serious impacts on human and animal populations. Many barriers strongly constraint efficient decision-making to anticipate complex phenomena: reluctance to share knowledge, weak global co-ordination, lack of standardization and confrontation of collection methods, availability of accurate data and information, accessibility problems for value chain stakeholders. As late response wastes people’s assets, lives and money, it is crucial to produce and share inclusive knowledge to resilience-enhancing policies and investments of (agro) pastoral communities and activities through a knowledge-based platform. This requires high quality data and knowledge from research. The process of producing knowledge, linking to value chain stakeholders and securing pastoral systems, is a major challenge that should be addressed on an interdisciplinary and multi-institutional basis.
The main idea is to fill the gaps by integrating research for development, value chain, development, producer and institutional networks in a public-private partnership through observatory bringing together all stakeholders of pastoral product value chains.
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