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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 […]
16/05/2022
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Wildlife management & community resistance in Tanzania
Despite continuing rhetoric on community conservation, trends in Tanzania reflect a process of reconsolidation of state control over wildlife resources and increased rent-seeking behaviour, combined with dispossession of local communities. The 1998 Wildlife Policy promoted community participation and local benefits, but – with the policy of 2007 and the Wildlife Conservation Act of 2009 – […]
15/05/2022
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Factors influencing migration & settlement of pastoralists in Nairobi
Pastoralism faces numerous challenges, including land-use and land-tenure change that diminish grazing land and conversion of traditional grazing lands into other uses such as settlements. Urbanisation is one of the key drivers of pastoral system dynamics. Understanding such dynamics in the face of compounding factors such as frequent droughts linked to climate change is key […]
15/05/2022
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Applying livestock thresholds to examine poverty in Karamoja
In pastoralist and agropastoralist areas, wealth and poverty are closely aligned to levels of livestock ownership and social inclusion. Whereas cash income per capita is a useful measure of poverty in non-pastoralist areas, measures of livestock ownership per capita are needed to understand poverty in pastoralist systems. The study “Applying livestock thresholds to examine poverty […]
15/05/2022
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Pastoralists’ social networks manage risk in Karamoja, Uganda
The article “Friendship, kinship and social risk management strategies among pastoralists in Karamoja, Uganda” by Padmini Iyer, published in Pastoralism 11:24 (2021), describes risk-pooling friendships and other social networks among pastoralists in Karamoja. Social networks are of critical importance to manage risk in an environment marked by volatility and uncertainty. These mainly takes the form […]
15/05/2022
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Development interventions undermine pastoral livelihoods in Turkana, Kenya
Turkana County has a long history of development interventions yet remains one of the poorest counties in Kenya. In Turkana, livelihoods are increasingly under threat because of climate change, conflict and changing land use. The question addressed in the article “Effects of development interventions on pastoral livelihoods in Turkana County, Kenya” by Gregory Akall, published […]