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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 […]
05/11/2021
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e-Books to strengthen capacity for managing water in Karamoja
The report on the “Horn of Africa and Sahel Virtual Knowledge Share Fair: Promoting innovation to build resilience against climatic shocks” that was held in October 2020 is now online. The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), in partnership with the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS) and the Food and Agriculture […]
03/11/2021
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Climate-change policy narratives vs pastoralists in Ethiopia & Kenya
Drawing on case studies in Ethiopia and Kenya, the paper “Climate change policy narratives and pastoralist predicaments in the Horn of Africa: insights from Ethiopia and Kenya” (2021, 4pp), presented by Tom Campbell at the Joint International Grassland & Rangeland Congress 2021, examines the discourses and narratives found in contemporary climate-change and national development policy, […]
03/11/2021
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CELEP Uganda: Pastoralists use & protect rangeland ecosystems
14/10/2021
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Rangeland Atlas – with map of Eastern Africa
09/10/2021
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Green colonialism ousting African pastoralists
In his book “L’invention du colonialisme vert: pour en finir avec le mythe de l’Éden africain” (The invention of green colonialism: putting an end to the myth of the African Eden), Guillaume Blanc describes how, in the late 19th century, colonialists believed they had found in Africa the nature they had lost in Europe. They […]