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01/09/2023
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Newsletters of Maasai International Solidarity Alliance (MISA)
19/03/2022
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UN declared IYRP in 2026 !
On 15 March 2022, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) declared 2026 the International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists (IYRP). This final approval is the culmination of an IYRP movement that grew over several years to become a global coalition of over 300 pastoralist and supporting organisations. CELEP – through its member organisation Agrecol Association […]
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 […]
28/05/2018
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How Europe could support pastoral dairying in Eastern Africa
06/05/2018
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Differing images of Nyangatom pastoralism in south Ethiopia
The article “Making sense of past, present and future: images of modern and past pastoralism among Nyangatom herders in South Omo, Ethiopia” by Jill Blau (2018, 11pp, published in the journal Land*), asks how Nyangatom pastoralists currently regard the past, present and future of their pastoralist livelihood. Like all agropastoralist groups in southern Ethiopia, the […]
29/04/2018
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Effectiveness of livestock insurance in managing climate risk in Ethiopia
Over the past four years, the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) collaborated with CIFA (Community Initiative Facilitation and Assistance), Oromia Insurance Company and ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute) in piloting index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) to protect Ethiopian livestock-keepers from drought‐related asset losses. The report “Participatory research on the effectiveness of index-based livestock insurance as […]
29/04/2018
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Pastoralist Field Schools improve pasture management in the Horn
During the past two decades, FAO and its partners have conducted Pastoralist Field Schools (PFSs) in the Horn of Africa. The brief document “Improving pasture management in arid and semi-arid lands in the Horn of Africa through Pastoralist Field Schools” (2018, 4pp) describes how their recent work with PFSs in Kenya (Mandera and Kajiado Counties) […]
20/04/2018
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Dairy development & pastoralist women’s milk consumption
Animal milk contributes to diversity in women’s diets, especially among pastoral communities. There have been many large-scale dairy development projects in East Africa, but few examples of pro-poor dairy development based on collective action and focused on increasing milk production and consumption by women. The study “The effect of participation in a pro-poor dairy development […]