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Abstract: We are currently working on a book with the provisional title above. It summarizes our findings from our work with the GL-CRSP Pastoral Risk Management (PARIMA) project. This brief Outlines the aim of the book, the approach in writing it, and the key findings that have emerged. The final volume is expected to be published in 2008. The book focuses on providing insights into how livelihood strategies operate currently and how they have changed over time in pastoral areas. We do this by placing the empirical evidence we gathered in the context of the research conducted previously in the PARIMA area. We do find livestock remain central to people’s livelihoods, but also document other important sources of income that both reduce poverty and vulnerability to poverty. We present evidence on how people view the risks they face and their priorities for future development in their community. Importantly, we collected information from multiple sites, multiple households within a site, and multiple individuals within households, so we are able to identify patterns that are generated by inter community, inter household, or intra household differences.