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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 […]
25/06/2018
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Knowledge sovereignty among Beni-Amer herders in the Horn
Beni-Amer cattle herders in the western part of the Horn of Africa (mainly in eastern Sudan) are “knowledge sovereign” in terms of owning productive genes of cattle and the cognitive knowledge base crucial to sustainable development. The strong bonds between the Beni-Amer, their animals and their environment constitute the basis of their ways of knowing. […]
24/06/2018
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Gender, land & mining in pastoralist Tanzania
In the Women’s Land Tenure Security Project (WOLTS), the development consultancy organisation Mokoro sought ways to improve gender equity in land-tenure governance and to secure the land rights of vulnerable peoples within pastoralist communities in Tanzania and Mongolia. In 2016–17, working together with the Tanzanian civil society organisation HakiMadini, it studied the state of and […]
12/06/2018
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Battling women’s double marginalisation in pastoral societies
11/06/2018
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Maternal healthcare for pastoralist women in Sudan
The rate of maternal mortality among pastoralists in Sudan is very high. The study “Factors influencing the utilization of maternal health care services by nomads in Sudan” (2015, 12pp) by Babker El Shiekh and Anke van der Kwaak (published in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice (2015) 5:23; DOI 10.1186/s13570-015-0041-x) identified factors affecting Sudanese pastoralist women’s […]