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CFEE Seminar – “A geopolitical perspective on livestock exports from the Horn of Africa”

CFEE Seminar – A GEOPOLITICAL PERSPECTIVE ON LIVESTOCK EXPORTS FROM THE HORN OF AFRICA

Presented by : Géraldine Pinauldt (Associate Research Fellow at IRIS), Doctor in geography & geopolitics and international consultant

ZOOM Link : https://cnrs.zoom.us/j/91776559120?pwd=RucQ3l58cVI571qOxtL18b4YaBeDva.1

ID de réunion: 917 7655 9120

Code secret: Cfee2025

Description : Géraldine Pinauldt is a doctor in geography & geopolitics and an international consultant. She is an associate researcher at various institutions, including the Centre français des Etudes éthiopiennes and the Institut français de Géopolitique. Since 2008, she has conducted long-term missions in Somaliland, Djibouti, and Ethiopia. Her PhD thesis focused on the geopolitics of livestock export trade in the Horn of Africa. Her research addresses territorial constructions, cross-border exchanges, and migration issues. She has published articles on these topics and teaches geopolitics to master’s students and foreign affairs executives in Africa.

Abstract : Between 1998 and 2009, Horn of Africa’s main livestock importer, Saudi Arabia, imposed a ban on its livestock for sanitary reasons. Since 1991, Horn of Africa’s states all underwent major territorial and political changes. Livestock trade being one of the main income source, it is an issue for direct or indirect territorial control at different scales.

Somaliland, that disunited from Somalia in 1991 is a central element of this commercial system. Its port Berbera is used as an outlet for 80% of the exported livestock. With the introduction of new sanitary standards, and as Somaliland’s existence lies in opposition to persistent geopolitical representations, livestock trade becomes a tool used to destabilize Somaliland.

Meanwhile, the introduction of those standards grants Ethiopia access to international foundings which can be used eather to rebalance its territory to the east or to increase an unequal development which roots lie in its stormy history with the Somali world. Globalisation of sanitary standards leads to new trade requirements whereas state regulations and territorial control are not yet achieved in the region.

The objective of this presentation is to show how the requirements/constraints become tools that in turn serve socio-spatial representations led geopolitical strategies. Mobile Somali livestock traders’ networked sociability enables them to keep a grip on the trade and its geopolitical translations. Acting as ties connecting the territories and the scales, the traders provide an understanding to the complex regional problematics.

This presentation, based on researches led between 2009 and 2013, will give an insight of geopolitical dynamics before the increasing development of corridors in the horn of africa.


OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Secrétaire Scientifique (17 juillet 2025). CFEE Seminar – “A geopolitical perspective on livestock exports from the Horn of Africa” UN ŒIL SUR LA CORNE / AN EYE ON THE HORN. Consulté le 17 janvier 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/14czm


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