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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 […]
26/11/2016
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Impact of armed conflict on pastoral economy in Kenya
The article ‘Gaafa dhaabaa – the period of stop’: narrating impacts of shifta insurgency on pastoral economy in northern Kenya, c. 1963 to 2007 by Zeinabu Kabale Khalif and Gufu Oba (published in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice 2013 3:14) looks at the long-term impacts of the 1960–68 insurgency wars and subsequent banditry on the pastoral economy in […]
25/11/2016
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Transitions in agropastoralist systems in East Africa
Climate-induced livelihood transitions in the African farming systems are increasingly likely. Mariana Rufino et al of the CGIAR’s Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) programme carried out fieldwork in 12 sites in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to understand recent changes in farming systems, and to test the hypothesis that sedentary agropastoralists in zones that […]
25/11/2016
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Changes in pastoral resources in eastern Sudan
The pastoral resources in eastern Sudan are changing under the combined impact of increasing anthropogenic activities such as clearance of natural vegetation and the effect of state policies that favour crop farming against pastoralism. The article “Monitoring changes in pastoral resources in eastern Sudan: a synthesis of remote sensing and local knowledge” by Hussein Sulieman and […]
CELEP Update November 2016
20/11/2016
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Changing conflict dynamics in Karamoja, Uganda
The report “We now have relative peace”: changing conflict dynamics in northern Karamoja, Uganda by Kimberly Howe et al with Mercy Corps (2015, 25pp) is based on research by the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University and Mercy Corps in northern Karamoja, Uganda. Most pastoralists in this area have settled and become agropastoralists. The study […]