Eritrea

Kenya’s native goats and sheep, expertly crossbred, are key to helping farmers cope with climate change

By Julie Ojango (ILRI) and Vivian Atakos (CCAFS) Smallholder farmers and pastoral herders in East Africa are the target of an ongoing joint project of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) and the CGIAR Research...

Managing degradation in East African rangelands

Governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) seeking to improve the well-being of herders in the arid and semi-arid rangelands of East Africa and the Greater Horn of Africa often receive contradictory recommendations on how to address land degradation through changing grazing management....

PENHA Silver Anniversary Celebrated With10km Thames Walk

PENHA’s Silver Anniversary was commemorated with our annual 10 km fundraising walk along the beautiful banks of the Thames River in London on Saturday 27th June 2015. The fundraising event with 16 people including PENHA staff, supporters and friends participating was a great moment as it brought...

Dr. Zaid represented the research consortium in Nairobi, Kenya

Representing the PENHA-UCL-Adigrat University Consortium for the Social Protection for Inclusive Development in Afar (SPIDA) Dr. Zaid Negash has attended the INCLUDE and the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) organized working conference on 'Building Policy-Knowledge Communities for...

PENHA to conduct research on Social Protection of Ethiopia

PENHA in partnership with the University College London (UCL) and Adigrat University of Ethiopia has secured a grant of €301,436 from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research

Pastoralist Knowledge Hub is launched by the FAO

The Hub is the first comprehensive initiative bringing pastoralists and international actors together to integrate pastoralist concerns into international policy dialogue.Who and why? Several 100 million pastoralists produce food and provide essential ecosystem services, but are often...

Research Sources

Accessing research papers on Africa The following are sources of research papers available through the internet, many of them at no charge.

John Plastow visits Somaliland

John Plastow of CARE International, PENHA Chair of Board of Trustees, visited the PENHA-Somaliland office in Hargeisa. John met staff, talked about programmes and exchanged ideas. Over several intensive days during mid March 2015, John also conducted meetings and field visits with CARE’s Somaliland...

Prosopis Regional Conference Proceedings Published

The proceeding for the PENHA Prosopis Regional Conference held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia during the end of November 2014 is published. To access the document, please click the link: http://www.penhanetwork.org/penha-ifad-prosopis-regional-conference

Prosopis Videos

This section has collected 12 videos of Prosopis Juliflora showing the challenges and opportunities it brings with it to the communities our globe. Watch these videos in order to have good understanding on the level of problems it is posing and also the potential alternatives attached to it...

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