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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 […]
03/02/2017
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Community views on education for nomads
The booklet Towards education for nomads: community perspectives in Kenya (2010, 35pp) by Izzy Birch, Sue Cavanna, Daoud Abkula and Diyad Hujale captures the voices and concerns of Kenyan pastoralists about education. It was produced as part of a broader action-research programme to guide the Government of Kenya’s strategy for nomadic education. The purpose of […]
11/01/2017
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CELEP statement on International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists
10/01/2017
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Life on the move: film
Cross-border livestock trade in dryland eastern Africa significantly contributes to enhancing food security and generating wealth. It supports the livelihoods of a wide range of actors including pastoralists, livestock traders and processors. The International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR), with financial and technical support from the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), organised […]
08/01/2017
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Livestock Development Strategy for Africa 2015–35
The “Livestock Development Strategy for Africa (LiDeSA) 2015–2035” (2015, 158pp), published by the African Union Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU–IBAR), seeks to transform the African livestock sector for accelerated and equitable growth. According to observed trends, demand for livestock and livestock products in Africa is expected to increase up to 8-fold by 2050, especially […]
31/12/2016
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Specialisation & diversification by pastoral Pokot in north Kenya
In the article “Adaptive cycles in the savannah: pastoral specialization and diversification in northern Kenya”, published in 2016 in the Journal of Eastern African Studies (10:1, 21–44), Michael Bollig brings evidence from Eastern Africa that a highly specialised mobile pastoral livelihood emerged in the early- to mid-19th century. Developments in the late 20th and early […]