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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 […]
06/03/2020
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CELEP co-signs call on locust crisis in the Horn
04/03/2020
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Context analysis of pastoralism & agropastoralism in Ethiopia
As a contribution to further development of the Draft Policy and Strategy Framework of the Ethiopian Ministry of Federal and Pastoral Development Affairs (MoFPDA), Mercy Corps commissioned the SEGEL Research Training and Consulting PLC to analyse the context of pastoralism and agropastoralism in the country. The “Context analysis of pastoral and agropastoral areas to enrich […]
04/03/2020
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Good practice in pastoralism, nature conservation & development
The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) brought out a good-practice guide on “Pastoralism, nature conservation and development” (2010, 40pp) on the links between pastoralism, biodiversity and poverty reduction. It describes the role of pastoralism in conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in drylands, and the contribution of pastoralism to poverty reduction and […]
01/03/2020
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Complex mosaic resource tenure in pastoral systems
Pastoral resource governance systems tend not to conform to the assumptions and principles of mainstream theories on property rights and governance of commons. This is often explained by the concept of open-property regimes, which holds that the typical features of dryland pastoralism – limited and highly variable rainfall, low resource density, mobility, and institutions and […]
14/02/2020
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Potential for carbon sequestration in Eastern African grasslands
The review article “Potential for soil organic carbon sequestration in grasslands in East African countries” by Bezaye Tessema et al (CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land & Ecosystems) published in 2020 in Grassland Science, summarises quantitative studies on soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration in grasslands in six Eastern African countries (Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania […]