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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 […]
28/02/2023
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Agropastoralists’ voices in Africa’s borderlands
The Africa Borderlands Centre of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) made a mixed-method (qualitative and quantitative) study “Promise, peril and resilience: voices of agropastoralists in Africa’s borderland regions” (2022, 152pp) among communities living in borderland regions in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, South Sudan and Uganda. In direct testimonies, community members describe […]
23/02/2023
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Pastoral land rights in Tanzania
The paper “Pastoral land rights in Tanzania: a review” (1992, 24pp) by Ringo Tenga, published in the Pastoral Land Tenure Series of the Drylands Programme of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), gives an overview of the status of pastoral land rights in Tanzania. It draws on statutory materials and existing case law […]
16/02/2023
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Theory & practice of conservancies: WMAs in Tanzania
The article “Theory and practice of conservancies: evidence from wildlife management areas in Tanzania” by Fidelcastor Kimario et al (published 2020 in Erdkunde 74 (2): 117–141) analyses the performance of Tanzanian Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) to better understand their relevance for safeguarding biodiversity outside of traditional protected areas, e.g. national parks. It assesses the potential […]
13/02/2023
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CELEP film with rangeland voices at SRM 2023 conference
12/02/2023
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Mobile pastoralists’ use of ICTs: example in Tanzania
The book Media culture in nomadic communities (2021, Amsterdam University Press, 221pp) by Allison Hahn looks at the role of modern information and communication technologies (ICTs) within nomadic communities, above all, how they use ICTs to gain control over how they are depicted and to express themselves as citizens demanding recognition of their rights. The […]