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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 […]
31/12/2016
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Political representation of Il Chamus agropastoralists in Kenya
In the article “A victory in theory, loss in practice: struggles for political representation in the Lake Baringo-Bogoria Basin, Kenya”, published in 2016 in the Journal of Eastern African Studies (10:1, 189–207), Peter Little addresses political rights and identity among Il Chamus agropastoralists of Baringo District of Kenya. He discusses an important 2006 judicial ruling […]
31/12/2016
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Resilience and collapse among pastoralist groups in Kenya
In the article “Resilience and collapse: histories, ecologies, conflicts and identities in the Baringo-Bogoria basin, Kenya”, published in 2016 in the Journal of Eastern African Studies (10:1, 1–20), David Anderson and Michael Bollig use the concept of resilience to examine long-term adaptation and transformation in response to environmental, economic, cultural or political shocks or adverse […]
31/12/2016
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Livestock marketing in Kenya–Ethiopia border areas
The Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) of the UK-based Overseas Development Institute (ODI) produced a working paper on “Livestock marketing in Kenya–Ethiopia border areas: a baseline study” (2010, 35pp) by Sara Pavanello. Livestock marketing is regarded as critical for improving pastoral household income. Addressing constraints to development of efficient livestock marketing in the Horn of Africa […]
26/12/2016
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Education and resilience in Kenya’s arid lands
The UNICEF “Study of education and resilience in Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands” (2015, 86pp) uses a resilience framework to ask how various education systems in the arid lands are helping or hindering young people and their societies to absorb shocks, adapt to and minimise stresses, and transform in positive ways when confronted with internal […]
26/12/2016
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Resource governance in Tanzanian Wildlife Management Areas
The article “Austere conservation: understanding conflicts over resource governance in Tanzanian wildlife management areas” by Jevgeniy Bluwstein et al (published 2016 in Conservation and Society 14(3): 218–231) explores how the regime of rules over access to land, natural and financial resources reflects the degree of community ownership of a Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Tanzania. […]