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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 […]
25/11/2018
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Making charcoal to control spread of Prosopis in Kenya
In a Web-based article “Kenyan charcoal businesses trying to nip invasive tree in the bud“ (October 2018) published in Mongabay, Rosalia Omungo describes how the invasive woody species Prosopis juliflora, known in Kenya as mathenge, was introduced to Kenya to restore degraded drylands but has quickly spread in the drylands. Residents in the Turkana area […]
25/11/2018
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NRM by pastoralists in northern Kenya
The Web article “Shalom empowers Turkana and Pokot communities on management and resolution of natural resource-based conflicts” introduces the Natural Resource Management (NRM) Project being implemented in Turkana and West Pokot Counties in northern Kenya, an area long marked by inter-ethnic conflict caused mainly by competition over access to and control of water, pasture and land. With the […]
25/11/2018
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Oil and tenure governance in Kenya’s drylands
The case study “Triggering the Food and Agriculture Organization’s Responsible Governance of Tenure in the context of oil extraction in Kenya’s Turkana County” presents the case of the appropriation of pastoral lands by the coming of large-scale oil extractive industry in Turkana, northern Kenya. This case study is meant to inform and raise awareness among local […]
25/11/2018
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Women’s land rights in Uganda, including Karamoja
Oxfam commissioned a study on “Women’s land rights in northern Uganda (West Nile, Acholi, Lango, Teso and Karamoja)” (2014, 105pp) which was carried out by Christopher Burke & Doreen Nancy Kobusingye. They looked at how women in northern Uganda acquire, own, access, control and manage land, by interviewing about 1200 people, including pastoralist women in […]
24/11/2018
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Analysis of cross-border trade policies & implementation
The IGAD Centre for Pastoral Areas and Livestock Development (ICPALD) review report “Gap analysis of cross-border trade policies, bilateral agreements and implementation challenges of IGAD Minimum Integration Plan” (2017, 54pp) was produced by the Regional Pastoral Livelihoods Resilience Project (RPLRP) funded by the World Bank. The report examines the regulations, challenges and performance of pastoral […]