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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 […]
21/10/2018
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Livestock & crop system development in Karamoja
The report “Agricultural development in Karamoja, Uganda: recent trends in livestock and crop systems, and resilience impacts” (2018, 78pp), by Adrian Cullis, examines policy and programming trends in agricultural development in Karamoja in northeast Uganda. It was commissioned by the USAID/Uganda Karamoja Resilience Support Unit (KRSU) and covers both crop farming and transhumant livestock management. […]
21/10/2018
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Payment for ecosystem services (PES) for pastoralists
Payment for ecosystem services (PES) is gaining popularity as an environmental and development policy tool. There have been important experiences in implementing PES in crop farming and forestry, but PES has seldom been applied for pastoralists in the rangelands. The study “Operationalizing payments for ecosystem services for pastoralists in rangeland settings” by Linda Pappagallo (2018, […]
20/10/2018
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Gendered vulnerability to climate change in semi-arid areas
Recent research indicates that vulnerabilities to impacts of climate change are gendered, but policy approaches aimed at strengthening local communities’ adaptive capacity largely fail to recognise this. The paper “Gendered vulnerabilities to climate change: insights from the semi-arid regions of Africa and Asia” by Nitya Rao et al, published in Climate and Development (2017) interrogates […]
05/10/2018
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“Values of pastoralism, with a focus on Eastern Africa” – open discussion briefing
30/09/2018
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Livestock by-products in Somaliland bring income for vulnerable groups
Livestock and livestock product exports are the main sources of foreign currency earning in Somaliland. Adding value to the livestock products provides additional income. The paper “An assessment of the livestock by-products value chains in Somaliland: the case of bones and tallow” by Nadhem Mtimet et al (published in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice 2018 […]