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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 […]
08/02/2024
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Maasai in Tanzania displaced for nature conservation
In December 2023 – the same month as Maasai lawyer Joseph Oleshangay received the Human Rights Prize from the City of Weimar, Germany (see news item) – the Germany-based Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker (Society for Threatened Peoples) issued a 50-page report in German on “Die Maasai in Tansania: gewaltsam vertrieben für den Naturschutz” (The Maasai […]
02/02/2024
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Contextualised education for Somali pastoralist children
In two e-articles in the UKFIET Education and Development Forum, Abdirazak Haybe, an education specialist based in Somali Region of Ethiopia, highlights the importance of pastoralist education for inclusive development of mobile and marginalised communities living in remote areas. He outlines the barriers faced by children in Somali pastoralist communities and calls for contextualised and […]
26/01/2024
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Economic contribution of pastoral meat trade in northern Kenya
The study “Economic contribution of the pastoral meat trade in Isiolo Town, Kenya” (2015, 32pp) by BC Gituku and colleagues uses a total economic valuation approach to characterise the economic contribution of pastoral meat production to the economy of Isiolo Town. It is based on semi-structured and key-informant interviews with livestock traders, brokers, butchers, transporters, […]
26/01/2024
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Promoting pastoralist heritage & alternative visions in northern Kenya
The article “The promotion of pastoralist heritage and alternative visions for the future of northern Kenya” by Zoe Cormack (Journal of Eastern African Studies 10(3): 548–567, DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2016.1266195) examines increasing claims of ‘heritage’ and ‘culture’ along the Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) corridor. It looks at how heritage is used to promote pastoralism, communal land […]
26/01/2024
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Mapping herd routes to improve pastoralist livelihoods
Livestock routes are essential to herders in eastern Africa, who use them to access water, feed and markets. But political and economic marginalisation is putting pressure on the natural resources that pastoralists rely on, causing conflicts and loss of value. Mapping current land uses has improved stakeholders’ understanding of how to protect the mobility of […]