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Struggle for land in Southern Somalia; The war behind the war

This book examines for the first time, the further key ingredients of land and resources control issues which must be addressed in any future efforts to restore order and establish peace in the region

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Besteman, C. (Editor), Cassanelli, L. V (Editor)

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EC Policy and Approach to Rural Develoment; Fighting Rural poverty

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European Commission- Somalia Unit

SIMIS: Scheme Irrigation Management Informaation Systems

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome (Italy)

World Wide AgroClimatic Database; FAOCLIM version 2.01

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome (Italy)

Ecological assessment of the coastal plain on North Western Somalia (Somaliland)

The objective of this study was to make an ecological assesment of the North Western Coastal plains of Somaliland. This would provide some preliminary information on vegetation use and trends, wildlife and livestock numbers and the use of the area by herders and their livestock.

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Sommerlatte, M., IUCN, Umar, A, IUCN

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The World Conservation Union

Samples from GIS lab

COMPONENTS OF THE GIS LAB - The GIS lab acts as a “Mapping Department” for Somalia and performs spatial analysis for many organizations working for Somalia. Data is acquired from the field, from bibliography and from remote sensing. DOCUMENTS: DIMU Annual Reports 1998-1989 DIMU Bronchure Pcodes for Somalia Awards for special achievements in GIS

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United Nations Development Program

Coping mechanisms and their efficancy in disaster prone pastoral systems of greater horn of Africa: Effects of the 1995-97 drought and 1997-98 El-Nino Rains and the response of pastoralists and livestock

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Ndikumana J., Kamindi, R., Marambii, R., International Livestock Research Institute, Stunth, J., Hamlett, P., Global Livestock-Collaborative Research Support Program Livestock Early Warning System (GL-CRSPLEWS), Ossiya, S, National Agriculture Research Organisation (NARO) , Uganda

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Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in East and Central Africa, Global Livestock-Collaborative Research Support Program Livestock Early Warning System, Texas, USA, International Livestock Research Institute

Guidelines for national FIVIMS: Background and principles

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Inter-Agency woking Group on Food Seurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping Systems, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome (Italy)

Irrigation Information Systems for Somalia

The aim of the work is to set up a comprehensive countrywide Information System for Irrigation. The system combines the existing and available information on Somalia, focusing its attention on the two river plains that are the most significant agricultural areas. In spite of the lack of some detailed data, the present Information Irrigation System can be consider a first effort to build up a useful tool to control, plan, manage and monitor the land. In this prospect, the main tasks of the work were:ul licollect all the existing/available information of Somalia/li licritically evaluate the usefulness of this information in the context of the future System/li; licreate a dynamic system that can be updated./li

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Rosati , I.

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome (Italy)

Anthropological report for the water rehabilitation and development programme in the context of food and health security; Dhagax Buur zone Ethiopian Somali National Regional State (ESNS), Ethiopia

The purpose of the anthropological assignment was ul; li To review the existing Clan maps and the relevant literature on the Somali communities inhabiting the project area from available sources in Nairobi and Addis-Ababa and develop contacts and information networking /li li To do joint field work with WATSAN and health teams to current proposed Dhagax Buur project locations, jointly review programme objectives, field methodology and acculturated principles of participatory development. During this time to define social constraints to sustainable development and list potential areas conflict. Initiate field based training for two Somali community workers who, it is hoped, will be have been recruited in advance/li; li Carry out specialist survey within the wider zone, map the area travelled and build up sketched clan boundaries concentrating on locations currently proposed, valuation judgement regarding those locations not yet assessed/visited based on global view of clan boundaries and recommend additional new locations or removal of old. The long term aim is to create Clans balance and elevate potential jealousy based on clan difference. Avoid conflict over scarce resources. Finalise output and deliverables, report back to field based programme teams, coordination in Addis Ababa and finally WATSAN dept in Brussels /li; /ul.

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Gomes N.

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European Union, Medecins Sans Frontieres

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