AfriScout Steward is the original migration information platform co-created with pastoralists for pastoralists. Its groundbreaking approach and patented technology fuses remote sensing with indigenous knowledge to improve migration decision-making – a crucial determinant of livestock and grassland health. Steward allows pastoralists to view vegetation data and crowdsourced alerts in near real-time across their entire grazing area. In turn, this enables them to determine where, when and how to move herds in ways that reduce risks, avoids overgrazing and improves herd health. Steward covers over 60 million hectares in Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, and Tanzania, is available as an Android app on Google Play, and has supported an estimated 2.3 million pastoralists.
A more intensive process, supported by AfriScout Field Agents and Technical Advisors, complemented by a web-based management platform allowing for real-time performance monitoring and real-time pasture availability. AfriScout Regen has developed a successful approach to applying regenerative grazing at large scale, shared use grazing lands. It is taking the guesswork out of landscape level restoration projects and enabling insights and performance management currently not available elsewhere. This full suite of tools is being co-developed in a live ‘lab’ of over 1.4 million hectares and with feedback from 70 pastoral communities in southern Ethiopia, making it one of the largest regenerative grazing projects in the world.
Rangeland management. AfriScout Regen communities are 90.6 percentage points more likely to have a shared grazing plan with high adherence and 80 percentage points more likely to feel confident that their community is able to manage their rangelands.
Rangeland conditions. AfriScout Regen communities are 80 percentage points more likely to report satisfaction with the quality of the pasture in their grazing areas.
Herd conditions. AfriScout Regen communities are 70 percentage points more likely to see improvements in herd condition and between 33 and 44 percentage points more likely to have livestock in good condition.
Conflict. AfriScout Regen users are 31 percentage points less likely to have experienced an instance of conflict in the last 6 months, and 61 percentage points more likely to report that grazing or resource related conflict had decreased in their experience in the past 12 months.
Pastoralist Wellbeing. AfriScout Regen users are 43 percentage points more likely to view pastoralism as a viable livelihood.
