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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 […]
09/03/2020
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Tsetse threat to resilience of Karamoja pastoralists
Over 70% of Uganda is infested by the tsetse fly, which has negative effects on human and livestock health. The study “Tsetse invasion as an emerging threat to socioecological resilience of pastoral communities in Karamoja, Uganda” (2020, 26pp) by Anthony Egeru et al, published in Sustainability 12, 1599 (doi:10.3390/su12041599), investigated the impact of tsetse invasion […]
09/03/2020
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Piloting Participatory Rangeland Management in Kenya
Since 2018, the CELEP partner organisation RECONCILE (Resource Conflict Institute) is collaborating with pastoralist communities and the County Government in Baringo and with technical partners in ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), ILC (International Land Coalition) and VSFB (Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Belgium, focal point of CELEP) in piloting the Participatory Rangeland Management (PRM) approach in Kenya. […]
09/03/2020
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Wildlife conservation from within Kenyan pastoralist communities
Islands of protected areas cannot secure all the space needed to sustain biodiversity and ecosystem function at a global scale and in the face of climate change. Conserving biodiversity on a landscape scale depends on finding adequate space and a meaningful place in the lives of land users. In the article “Conservation from the inside-out: […]
06/03/2020
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Participatory Rangeland Management Planning field guide
The 18-page booklet “Participatory Rangeland Management Planning: a field guide” (2018) by Guyo Roba and Jonathan Davies was prepared primarily for staff in IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) dryland projects but could be useful also to other practitioners. Based primarily on IUCN experiences in Eastern Africa, the practical guide illustrates the steps to […]
06/03/2020
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