The Message of our Co-Dinator Mr. Lebaraka Laizer on Climate changes

Climate change will have serious impacts in pastoral areas, including increased severity of droughts. Yet discussion of the impacts has often been simplistic and polarized between those who predict catastrophe and those who point to pastoralists’ ability to adapt, if the policy context allows. At the same time, there is controversy over the contribution of pastoralism to greenhouse gas emissions. This Note identifies ways forward through research and development