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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 […]
21/12/2019
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Tanzanian pastoralists risk dispossession through geospatial surveys
The article “Resisting legibility: state and conservation boundaries, pastoralism, and the risk of dispossession through geospatial surveys in Tanzania” by J. Bluwstein, published in Rural Landscapes: Society, Environment, History, 6(1), illustrates how the use of modern geospatial surveying technology in Tanzania failed to resolve a boundary conflict between the state and nature conservation authorities on […]
21/12/2019
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Total economic value of pastoralism in Kenya
The available statistics on pastoralism in Kenya tend to underestimate its value in terms of its contribution to the national economy. The study “The value of pastoralism in Kenya: application of total economic value approach” (by D.M.Nyariki & D.A. Amwata, published in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice 2019 9:9) analysed the contribution of pastoralism to […]
21/12/2019
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Weather and climate forecasting by Afar pastoralists in Ethiopia
In many pastoral communities in Africa, traditional weather and climate forecasting is the most accessible and affordable source of such information. In the study “Indigenous weather and climate forecasting knowledge among Afar pastoralists of northeastern Ethiopia: role in adaptation to weather and climate variability” (by Mulubrhan Balehegn et al, published in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and […]
CELEP Update December 2019
17/12/2019
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Impacts of Prosopis invasion on livelihoods of Afar pastoralists
Scientists in Haramaya and Addis Ababa Universities in Ethiopia made a study on “Impacts of woody invasive alien plant species on rural livelihood: generalized propensity score evidence from Prosopis spp. invasion in Afar Region in Ethiopia” (published 2018 in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice 8, article 28) to assess the impact of Prosopis invasion on […]