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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 […]
14/02/2018
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Kenya’s Community Land Act: threat & potential for pastoralists
Kenya’s 2010 Constitution classified community land alongside public and private land as having equal status and protection. However, the Ministry of Lands, National Land Commission and county governments have no coherent strategy to roll out the Community Land Act. Development actors focus only on land registration, which can cause conflict and undermine efforts to protect […]
08/02/2018
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Kenyan pastoralists losing out on Equalization Fund
The Equalization Fund was set up by the Government of Kenya (GoK) to address the marginalisation and low level of infrastructure in the North. It provides for annual appropriation of 0.5% of all revenue collected by the GoK to use in improving basic services such as water, roads, health facilities and electricity for communities in […]
31/01/2018
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Advocating for animal health services adapted to pastoralism
24/01/2018
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Opportunities and challenges of Kenya’s Community Land Act
In 2016, Kenya acknowledged customary tenure as producing lawful property rights, not merely rights of occupation and use on government or public lands. The 25-page article “The Community Land Act in Kenya: opportunity and challenges for communities” (2018) by Liz Alden Wily, published in the journal Land 7, 12 (doi:10.3390/land7010012), looks into this new legal […]
15/01/2018
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Long history of livestock marketing by African pastoralists
Development planners today often want to “link pastoralists to market” so that they will sell more of their animals. The book “Customary commerce: a historical reassessment of pastoral livestock marketing in Africa” (1992, 126pp) by Carol Kerven, published by the Overseas Development Institute (London, UK), challenges the assumptions that pastoralists were isolated from the market […]