Research Dissemination Event Explores Pastoralist Climate Resilience in Somaliland
February 26, 2025 2025-03-08 7:26Research Dissemination Event Explores Pastoralist Climate Resilience in Somaliland
The Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) of the University of Hargeisa and its research partners organized a research dissemination event at the IPCS Seminar Room. Researchers from the research project presented their published papers focused on different themes including public and private rangeland enclosures on pastoralists in Somaliland, durable solutions to Somaliland’s displacement crisis will require support for pastoralists, rangeland management practices in Somaliland with a particular focus on Aroori Grazing Reserve, climate governance, and among other topics.
The Pastoralist Climate Change Resilience in Somaliland (PACCS) project is a four and half years’ research collaboration (2022–27) funded by Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs through DANIDA Fellowship Centre (DFC). This research project explores how pastoralists in Somaliland, an East African climate ‘hot spot’, adapt to climate change effects on their livelihoods. Pastoralism is a complex system, driven by interlinked economic, socio-ecological and institutional factors. The PACCS therefore takes an interdisciplinary approach to assess pastoralist climate resilience across the domains of markets, land-management and hybrid governance. By unpacking synergies and trade-offs among different pastoralist resilience strategies, the project advances academic debates on climate resilience and informs locally relevant climate change policies.
