A forthcoming EUI working paper by Alessandro Dessi explains the findings from a study on pastoral schools in southern Europe, asking how they are responding to the issue of uncertainty.
Schools to train new pastoralists are booming in southern Europe. The aim of these initiatives is often manifold. On the one hand, there is an effective problem of a lack of workforce, and very limited renewal from generation to generation of people wanting to extensively engage in looking after grazing animals, and who might eventually scale up as livestock keepers themselves. As somebody put it, ‘pastoralists of tomorrow are likely to be much different from those of yesterday’ (Luca Battaglini, Rete Appia activist).
This article is from PASTRES, a research programme that aims to learn from pastoralists about responding to uncertainty and resilience, with lessons for global challenges. PASTRES is co-hosted by IDS.
