In January 2022, the research teams from the Universities of Al Fashir (North Darfur, Sudan) and Zalingei (Central Darfur, Sudan) hosted events at their universities. The research teams shared their…
Saverio Krätli
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Saverio Krätli specializes in the interface between science and development with a focus on pastoral systems. He has worked with the center on a variety of projects including, the Pastoralism and Pastoralist Livelihoods in Sudan and the Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate extremes and Disasters projects. Saverio’s current research interests include the relationship between resilience and dry land people’s adaptive strategies to take advantage of environmental variability, and the gap between dry lands/pastoral development theory and its methodological legacy.
Saverio has eighteen years of experience as a researcher and consultant, first with the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex, then as a freelancer. Based in the UK, he has research experience in Niger, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan, Chad, and Mongolia. He worked on conflict; education; pastoralist knowledge, mobility, and production; livelihood analysis; and total economic valuation of pastoral systems.
Saverio has been an honorary editor of Nomadic Peoples, the journal of the Commission on Nomadic Peoples, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) since 2009. He has also been an associate research fellow at the German Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture, and Trans-disciplinary and Social-ecological Land-use Research (DITSL) in Witzenhausen (Germany) since 2016.
Saverio has a B.A. in philosophy (Laurea, 1st class with honors) from the University of Bologna (Italy), an M.A. in anthropology of development (Distinction) from the University of Sussex (UK), and a DPhil in development studies from Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex.
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This brief (in Arabic) explores the idea that social relationships dictate people’s experience of the natural environment on which their livelihoods depend, to discuss the issue of peaceful natural resource management in Darfur.
This brief explores the idea that social relationships dictate people’s experience of the natural environment on which their livelihoods depend, to discuss the issue of peaceful natural resource management in Darfur.
This case report explores the ways members of the LGBTQI+ Syrian refugee community survive in Beirut, Lebanon amidst extreme prejudice from much of the Lebanese population, the Lebanese government, and other Syrians.
Cette étude est une contribution à la compréhension de la dynamique pastorale-agricole dans le Dar Sila, en relation avec son environnement naturel, social et économique. L’étude était initialement destinée à…
This study is a contribution to the understanding of pastoralism-farming dynamics in Dar Sila, in relation to their natural, social, and economic environment.
The executive summary of a study that contributes to the understanding of pastoralism-farming dynamics in Dar Sila, in relation to their natural, social, and economic environment.