Value of Pastoralism (page 1)
With camelids into a sustainable future
For the International Year of Camelids 2024, Misereor, DITSL (German Institute for Tropical & Subtropical Agriculture) and LPP (League for Pastoral Peoples) in Germany have brought out a dossier on pastoral camelid husbandry around the world: “With camelids into a sustainable future: learning from pastoralist communities” (2024, 20pp), published by welt-sichten, Frankfurt. It describes the […]
IGAD Camel Resources Management Strategy 2023–2032
The region of northeast Africa covered by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has the highest density of camels in the world and is the largest producer of camel milk and meat, with export of live camels being of major economic importance. The IGAD Centre for Pastoral Areas and Livestock Development (ICPALD) and the African […]
CELEP contributes to MOOC on pastoralism in development
Pastoral development would benefit greatly from a better understanding of pastoralism by project planners. CELEP member organisation IIED (International Institute for Environment & Development) and Saverio Krätli (editor of Nomadic Peoples) have created a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), funded by Misereor, Germany, as an entry point for navigating the available knowledge on pastoralism, including […]
Pastoralism & climate resilience: technical paper + policy brief
Based partly on a CELEP webinar on pastoralism and climate change in December 2021, two publications by Saverio Krätli et al. were brought out by GIZ (German Agency for International Cooperation) in 2022: Technical background paper “Pastoralism and resilience of food production in the face of climate change” (20pp) Policy brief “Climate resilience – what […]
CELEP update 2021-2022
In the introductory session to the CELEP strategy-planning meeting on 7-9 December 2022 in Brussels, Belgium, Ann Waters-Bayer from the CELEP member organisation Agrecol Association for AgriCulture & Ecology gave a brief update on CELEP activities in 2021-2022.