How FAO and The EU support Pastoral Communities in Eastern Kenya
Due to poor food security management many communities living in this area are dependent on transhumance (movement of livestock to manage pastures).
Unfortunately, since drought is commonplace, the lack of food security has set in motion a range of social problems, most prominently frequent clashes between neighboring communities, child abandonment and school dropouts (especially girls) and desertification.
In order to achieve food security for all, proper food security management should be deployed to ensure such vulnerable communities are well protected in the event of droughts.
FAO and the European Union came together to create the Coalition of European Lobbies on East African Pastoralism (CELEP). The Members of the Coalition will work together to lobby their national governments, EU bodies (Council, Parliament and Commission) as well as other policy formulating bodies/ agencies in Europe (e.g. the European Headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva and the FAO in Rome) to explicitly recognise and support pastoralism (and the people that practise pastoralism: pastoralists) in the drylands of Eastern Africa.
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