Welcome to the website of the Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP), an informal advocacy group of European organisations and specialists partnering with pastoralist organisations and specialists in Eastern Africa. The members and partners of the Coalition combine forces to lobby their national governments and European and Eastern African bodies to explicitly recognise and support pastoralism and pastoralists in the drylands of Eastern Africa. We are also in the core team of the international movement that succeeded in gaining UN designation of the International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists in 2026. On this website for our Coalition, you can find the latest news, documents and articles related to the activities and interests of CELEP.
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01/06/2021
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Pastoralism is the future – animated video
Man-made climate change is creating conditions on our planet that are increasingly characterised by variability and unpredictability. Pastoralists use variability to their advantage. Their production systems guide us to a sustainable future. Find out how they do it in this 2:23-min animated video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeqITzac9Ac This video film was created by Cartoonbase and realised by CELEP […]
24/09/2026
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Building on customary institutions in rangeland governance in Kenya
The policy brief “Building on Customary Institutions for Effective Rangeland Governance in Northern Kenya” (2026, 4pp), written by Malit Wako and her colleagues from the German Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture (DITSL) and the Kenyan Centre for Research & Development in Drylands, offers insights and recommendations from the transdisciplinary InfoRange project ‘Increasing Efficiency in […]
10/09/2026
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We need pastoralists!
Misereor in collaboration with the League for Pastoral Peoples, DITSL (German Institute for Tropical & Subtropical Agriculture), Foundation for Ecological Security and Welt-Sichten, published a dossier “We need pastoralists” (2026, 20pp) edited by Sabine Dorlöchter-Sulser and colleagues in Africa and Asia. It focuses on how herders and crop farmers collaborate to sustain fertile landscapes. An […]
28/08/2026
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‘Energy Justice’? Pastoralism, political ecology and lower-carbon energy transitions
As global renewable energy (RE) capacity continues to expand, green extractivism and energy justice (EJ) have become increasingly pressing concerns. The paper ‘‘Energy Justice’? Pastoralism, political ecology and lower-carbon energy transitions, published in 2026 in Geoforum, focuses on the justice implications of energy transitions and the processes by which they are produced in pastoralists’ lands. […]
28/06/2026
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Pastoral lands and the green transition: opportunities and challenges
The “green transition” – the global response to the climate and biodiversity crises – is generating demand for land to implement renewable-energy and carbon-sequestration projects. Rangelands have been attractive to investors because of their large extent, their high potential for wind and solar energy and for carbon sequestration and storage, and the perception that they […]
07/05/2026
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Pastoral grazing in Tanzania’s village land forest reserves
Over the past 30 years, participatory forestry reforms have tried to roll back the enclosures of forests that characterised the colonial era. However, a vast body of literature reveals how these reforms have faced resistance from forestry bureaucracies hesitant to give up control. In the article “Rendering homogenous and incompatible: pastoral grazing in Tanzania’s village […]
