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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 […]
12/03/2019
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Gaps in knowledge about pastoralism & rangelands
UN Environment and GRID-Arendal (Norway) produced the report “A case of benign neglect: knowledge gaps about sustainability in pastoralism and rangelands” (2019, 78pp) by Kathrine Johnsen et al, in response to the United Nations Environment Assembly’s resolution “Combating desertification, land degradation and drought and promoting sustainable pastoralism and rangelands” at UNEA–2. This resolution acknowledged the […]
08/03/2019
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Pastoralism & the SDGs
CELEP has issued a new brief “Pastoralism & the SDGs: how supporting pastoralism can help realise the Sustainable Development Goals” (February 2019, 8pp). It looks at the SDGs most relevant to the pastoral context, and assesses for each of them the main challenges as well as the steps needed to ensure that pastoralism can contribute […]
04/03/2019
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Resilience of Maasai pastoralists on group ranches in Kenya
The article “Pastoral resilience among the Maasai pastoralists of Laikipia County, Kenya” by Ambani Ameso et al (published in Land 2018, 7, 78; doi:10.3390/land7020078) analyses Maasai pastoralists’ coping strategies and mechanisms through a food-system approach, based on an anthropological study in Laikipia County, Kenya. This site was chosen because of the co-existence and interactions of […]
28/02/2019
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Gender & pastoralist resilience to climate change in NW Kenya
In pastoralist communities, climate change will have different impacts on women and men’s livelihoods. Building resilience at individual, household and community level will largely depend on the suitability of interventions to the local context, particularly in relation to the social dynamics and power relations that create differences in vulnerability. The research presented in the paper […]
27/02/2019
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Livestock market secures livelihoods in Marsabit, Kenya
A case study for AFSA (Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa) focuses on livestock market in Marsabit in northern Kenya. The 4-page brief “Livestock market secures livelihoods in Marsabit, Kenya”, by Isaac Lubutsi of Vétérinaires Sans Frontières (VSF) Germany, reports on collaboration with the Department of Livestock Production on Marsabit County’s in constructing a new […]