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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 […]
05/11/2018
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Town camels: Somali innovation in selling camel milk
On their own initiative, some Ethiopian pastoralists have started to raise livestock near towns in the drylands in order to supply milk to the urban market. The study “Town camels: pastoral innovation in a fast changing world – a case study from Gode town, Somali Regional State, Ethiopia” by Abdi Abdullahi Hussein et al (2011, […]
CELEP Update October 2018
30/10/2018
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Borana women’s network for local food security
Pastoralist societies are known for their strong social networks. The paper “Borana women’s indigenous social network marro in building household food security: case study from Ethiopia” by Abiyot Eliyas Anbach and Darley Jose Kjosavik, published in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice 2018 (8:29), explores the role of marro – a women’s network to access resources […]
30/10/2018
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Pastoral dairy development in Eastern Africa
CELEP members and partners contributed a poster, abstract and 4-page paper on “Pastoral dairy development for food security and food safety in Eastern Africa: challenges and potentials” to the Tropentag Conference on International Research on Food Security, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development held on 17–19 September 2018 in Ghent, Belgium. In order to inform […]
21/10/2018
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Improving the livestock sector in Ngorongoro, Tanzania
A report for the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) entitled “Livestock sector in the Ngorongoro District: analysis, shortcomings and options for improvement” (2018, 58pp) by Pablo Manzano and Lucas Yamat, looks at how to increase revenues from livestock in Ngorongoro in northwest Tanzania. In response to the 2017 drought, local communities used different strategies, […]