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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 […]
07/06/2024
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Uncertainty, pastoral knowledge & early warning in northern Kenya
The article “Uncertainty, pastoral knowledge and early warning: a review of drought management in the drylands, with insights from northern Kenya” by Samuel Derbyshire and colleagues, published in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice (June 2024, https://doi.org/10.3389/past.2024.13006), explores the recent history of early warning systems in Kenya. It identifies key features of the political, technical and […]
29/05/2024
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Webinar on pastoralism and link with Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’
CELEP update 2023-24
26/04/2024
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Are pastoralists’ herds a climate threat?
An FAO report suggests that pastoralism is part of the global problem of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Some researchers see the situation differently. The debate could affect pastoralist cultures worldwide. In his blog “Are world’s 200 million pastoral herders a climate threat?” published in The Christian Science Monitor (24 April 2024), Michael Benanav argues that […]
25/04/2024
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Kenyan pastoralists’ high-reliability networks critical for resilience
As part of an action-research project ‘Resilience from Below’ funded by the Australian Centre for International and Agricultural Research and the Tufts University Feinstein International Center’s research on early warning and humanitarian response, the Centre for Research and Development in the Drylands (CRDD) is looking into how pastoralist communities in Kenya organise themselves in daily […]