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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 […]
03/02/2023
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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 […]
27/01/2023
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Indigenous weather forecasting by Gujii pastoralists in Ethiopia
The paper “Indigenous weather forecasting among Gujii pastoralists in southern Ethiopia: towards monitoring drought” by Mekuria Guye et al, published in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice (2022), investigates the use of indigenous weather forecasting (IWF) methods by Gujii pastoralists in southern Ethiopia to forecast drought. Data on IWF were collected through household surveys, focus group […]
25/01/2023
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Review of 2022 humanitarian crisis in Karamoja
In 2022, Karamoja’s long-term food security and livelihood challenges evolved into a humanitarian crisis that led to a substantial loss of human life. The Karamoja Resilience Support Unit of the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University published a real-time review of the crisis carried out in September–October 2022. The report, “The 2022 humanitarian crisis in […]
23/01/2023
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Impact of national policy processes on pastoralism in Tanzania
The report “A study on the impact of national policies processes on pastoralism in Tanzania” (2007, 37pp) by Edward Porokwa et al from PINGOs (Pastoralists Indigenous Non-Governmental Organisations) Forum examines the implementation of national policies and laws to pastoralists and pastoralism in three pastoral districts – Ngorongoro, Kiteto and Simanjiro – in Arusha and Manyara […]
02/01/2023
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Being Maasai, becoming Indigenous – book reviews
We cannot post the book itself but we can post a couple of reviews of Dorothy Hodgson’s book Being Maasai, becoming Indigenous: postcolonial politics in a neoliberal world. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011, 288 pp, ISBN-13: 978–0253223050). This review, written by Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox, was published in the journal Pastoralism: Research Policy and Practice 2: 27 […]