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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 […]
12/06/2019
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Kenyan pastoralists adapt to climate variability
A study on “Impact of climate variability on pastoral households and adaption strategies in Garissa County, Northern Kenya” by Michael Okoti et al, published in 2014 in the Journal of Human Ecology 45 (3): 243–249, has been summarised in accessible form in the e-newsletter The Conversation (1 May 2019) under the title “How Kenya’s pastoralists […]
10/06/2019
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Revisiting pastoralist Productive Safety Net Programme in Ethiopia
Studies of the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) in the Afar and Somali regions in the Ethiopian lowlands suggest that the PSNP is beset with difficulties. This is deeply concerning, as these predominantly pastoral and agropastoral areas have some of the country’s highest levels of poverty and food insecurity and it is difficult to find […]
10/06/2019
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Pastoralists’ knowledge and climate change
The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the School of Geography & Environment of Oxford University have published the book “Indigenous peoples and climate change: emerging research on traditional knowledge and livelihoods” (2019, 128 pp) edited by Ariell Ahearn et al. Although the indigenous knowledge of local communities cuts across numerous aspects of sustainability and resilience, […]
09/06/2019
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Karamojong: “Pastoralism is our future”
25/05/2019
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