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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 […]
27/12/2017
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Innovative ways to reduce farmer-herder conflicts
Procasur Corporation*, IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development), ILC (International Land Coalition), ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), the Land Portal Foundation and RECONCILE (Resource Conflict Institute) co-organised a week-long Learning Route (LR) in September 2017 about reducing conflicts between crop farmers and livestock keepers. The Value Chain Development Project (VCDP) in Nigeria had requested to […]
21/12/2017
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Decision matrix for development interventions in pastoral areas
In the article “Development interventions in pastoralist areas: a new decision matrix to identify win-win situations and no-go zones” published in the web-based journal Solutions (2017, Vol. 8, No. 3), Pablo Manzano introduces a methodology to allow outsiders from development programmes to quickly comprehend the logic of pastoral systems. This involves a respectful bottom-up approach […]
21/12/2017
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Pathways to resilience in pastoralist areas
Across the Horn of Africa, pastoralist areas have been persistent and difficult challenges for governments and for development and humanitarian agencies. Although often viewed as physically remote, universally poor and subject to droughts and conflicts, these areas can also be economic hubs, with substantial livestock trade networks to local markets and crossing borders to neighbouring […]
19/12/2017
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Merry Christmas
15/12/2017
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Pastoralism under threat by SAGCOT in Tanzania
CELEP member Terra Nuova (Italy) combined forces with the CELEP core group and the campaign Hands on the Land for Food Sovereignty to bring out the policy brief “Pastoralism under threat: human rights violations in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania” (2017, 12pp). This brief addresses the livelihood implications of global trends in agricultural […]