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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 […]
16/10/2022
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Policies that work for pastoral environments
The World Initiative for Sustainable Pastoralism (WISP) carried out a 6-country review of positive policy impacts on pastoral environments: Policies that work for pastoral environments (2008, 30pp). Land degradation in drylands is partly due to constraints on pastoralism through restrictions of mobility, privatisation of land, and introducing less sustainable forms of livestock keeping. Pastoralism is […]
14/10/2022
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Water tenure for food security, climate resilience & equity
Pastoralist water rights were given attention in the workshop on “Promoting water tenure for food security, climate resilience and equity” (report by Karolina Heck et al, 2022, 31pp) held by FAO and adelphi research in June 2022 in Berlin, Germany. The workshop aimed to increase knowledge and awareness about the role of water tenure in […]
29/09/2022
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CELEP’s pastoralism film festival at Tropentag 2022
29/09/2022
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Pastoralism & policy course in Uganda
The Karamoja Resilience Support Unit (KRSU) asked the International Institute for Environment & Development (IIED) to run a workshop in 2017 to introduce a pastoralism and policy training course developed for East Africa to a multistakeholder group from Uganda. Workshop participants agreed that the training – if adapted to the Ugandan context – would enable […]
21/09/2022
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Transitioning Maasai pastoralists adapt to climate change in Kenya
With increasing fragmentation of rangelands, more restricted mobility and growing climatic stress, Eastern African pastoralists are diversifying their sources of livelihood. Diversification is also promoted as a strategy to adapt to climate change. In an article based on a study on Maasai communal land in southern Kenya, entitled “Adapting to climate change among transitioning Maasai […]