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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 […]
09/10/2021
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Women’s land rights in pastoral areas of Ethiopia
In Ethiopia, formal laws assert that women have equal rights regarding land use and access. However, the pastoral areas are often highly influenced by religious and customary systems under which women tend to have weaker land rights. The report “Women’s land rights: customary rules and formal laws in the pastoral areas of Ethiopia – complementary […]
21/09/2021
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Land degradation neutrality: participatory range assessment
In rangelands, land degradation has an immediate and local impact by disrupting ecosystems from functioning, threatening livelihoods, negatively affecting social cohesion and threatening productivity. Land degradation in rangelands is poorly understood because of a lack of robust data and misconceptions of management objectives. Day-to-day land management by pastoralist communities is intricately linked to local knowledge […]
15/09/2021
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Impacts of Covid-19 on pastoralists’ food security in East & West Africa
The focus of attention regarding the impacts of Covid-19 has been on direct health outcomes and the macroeconomic impacts of control measures. In “Impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on food security among East and West African pastoralists” (2021, 32pp, published in Advances in Food Security and Sustainability), Evan Griffith et al review the available evidence […]
05/09/2021
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Pastoralism: making variability work
The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has published “Pastoralism: making variability work” (2021, Animal Production & Health Paper 185, 58pp) written by Saverio Krätli and Ilse Koehler-Rollefsen with comments and guidance from FAO staff and pastoralist specialists worldwide. Pastoral systems have evolved to function with the natural environment and therefore with […]
03/08/2021
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Water for people and livestock in Borana
As part of the EU-funded RESET (Resilience Building & Creation of Economic Opportunities in Ethiopia) project, CARE Ethiopia looked into “Water in Borana, Ethiopia: a study of the development, use and maintenance of water sources in the rural areas of Borana Zone” (2019, 66pp, by Adrian Cullis et al). It sought a better understanding of […]