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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 […]
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 […]
29/08/2022
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Legal & policy options to support pastoralism in Kenya
For the course developed by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) on Pastoralism and Policy in East Africa, Michael Odhiambo prepared a contribution on “Policy and legal options for supporting pastoralism at country/inter-county levels in Kenya”. This outlines the opportunities for supporting pastoralism based on the strategy, policies and plans of the Government […]
25/08/2022
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Supporting pastoralist youth’s prospects for decent work in the drylands
The SPARC (Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises) programme reviewed the factors that shape young people’s livelihoods and work prospects in the drylands of sub-Saharan Africa. The report “Resilient generation: supporting young people’s prospects for decent work in the drylands of east and west Africa” (2021, 116pp), by Mairi Dupar et al, […]
29/07/2022
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Pastoral civil society across borders of Kenya, Uganda & Ethiopia
A study of civil society in border regions in Eastern Africa “Pastoralist civil societies: cooperative empowerment across boundaries in borderlands of Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia” (2018, 102pp) by Immo Eulenberger et al was published by the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute and the Robert Bosch Foundation. Civil society is generally regarded as constituting formal organisations that are […]
29/07/2022
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