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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 […]
21/02/2021
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Contribution of livestock to Sudanese economy
In the report “The contribution of livestock to the Sudanese economy” (2012, 56pp) commissioned by Inter-Governmental Authority on Development’s Livestock Policy Initiative (IGAD LPI), Roy Behnke & Hala Mohamed Osman assess the contribution of livestock to Sudan’s national economy. Conventional GDP accounting ignores some benefits that people derive from livestock in subsistence-oriented economies, when households […]
08/02/2021
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Hybrid pastoralists: Turkana adapt to development interventions
With development interventions, Turkana pastoralists have adapted to the new situation and built up new ways of cooperation between the pastoralists in the rangelands and the Turkana who are no longer actively practising pastoralism and often live in towns. In the working paper “Hybrid pastoralists – development interventions and new Turkana identities” (2014, 30pp) published […]
07/02/2021
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IK in adaptive environmental management in Borana, Ethiopia
The proliferation of woody plant species has been observed on rangelands in the Horn of Africa. The paper “Indigenous ecological knowledge as the basis for adaptive environmental management: evidence from pastoralist communities in the Horn of Africa” (2016) by Chuan Liao et al looks into pastoralists’ adaptation to such environmental changes in the Borana Zone […]
06/02/2021
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Irish Aid support to pastoralism in Tanzania 2007–16
This “Review of Irish Aid support to pastoralism in Tanzania” (2016, 86pp) in the period 2007–16 was based on reports and evaluations of the Pastoralist Basket Fund Programme (PBFP) and the subsequent Pastoralist Programme. Achievements included increased pastoralist CSO capacity, greater general awareness on pastoralism as a way of life, better service delivery for pastoralists […]
02/01/2021
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Cross-border activities for livelihood security in the Horn of Africa
Pastoralist communities have long carried out a wide range of cross-border activities to protect their livelihoods and livestock production systems in order to cope with the recurrent climatic variations typical of dryland environments. However, there is limited understanding of the nature, magnitude and value of these cross-border livelihood activities in the Horn of Africa. National […]