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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 […]
01/05/2020
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Alternative scales for formalising communal land tenure by Borana in Ethiopia
A research team from ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), LARMAT (Dept of Land Resources Management and Agricultural Technology, University of Nairobi) and the Yabelo Pastoral & Dryland Agricultural Research Institute published the paper “An assessment of the implications of alternative scales of communal land tenure formalization in pastoral systems” in Land Use Policy 94 (2020) […]
30/04/2020
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CELEP annual report for 2019
The CELEP report on activities of the Coalition in the year 2019 is structured according to the action plan that was drawn up by the European member organisations and Eastern African partner organisations in the Annual General Meeting in 2018. It covers activities related to Communication (CELEP website, film festival websites and Google group), Knowledge […]
28/04/2020
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Pastoral development and policy environment in Ethiopia
The 3-page brief “Pastoral development pathways in Ethiopia: the policy environment and critical constraints” by Mohamed Yimer, Arba Minch University, Ethiopia, was written as a contribution to the Global Sustainable Development Report in 2015. It addresses issues of pastoralist livelihood vulnerability and challenges in the light of the policy environment for pastoralism in Ethiopia. The […]
27/04/2020
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Framework for One Health service in Turkana, Kenya
Pastoralists in Eastern Africa have limited access to public services because of economic and political marginalisation and limited health infrastructure in dryland areas. Kenya has institutionalised One Health at national level to integrate human and animal health service delivery but progress at subnational level has been limited because of sustainability concerns, competing priorities and insufficient […]
17/04/2020
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Addressing the double-crisis of locusts and COVID-19 in the Horn
17 April 2020: The combined impacts of COVID-19 and the desert locust invasion will worsen the already dire food-security situation in the Greater Horn of Africa. It is therefore critical that locust surveillance and control operations, as well as livelihood and food-security responses continue, even with the movement restrictions in place to prevent the spread […]