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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 […]
24/09/2016
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Industrial meat production vs pastoralism
In a policy brief issued by the Centre for Environment and Development (CDE) of Bern University – Sustainable livestock production? Industrial agriculture versus pastoralism (2015, 6pp) – industrialised meat production is compared with mobile pastoralism. The former is described as wasteful and energy-intensive; it claims excessive shares of land and crops that could be eaten […]
24/09/2016
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Pastoralist conflict on Kenya-Sudan-Uganda border
In the border region of Kenya, Sudan and Uganda, pastoralists migrate in search of water and pasture. With limited access to water and competing rights to land, inter-tribal conflict arises when pastoralists from one tribe enter the territory of another. The increased availability of small arms in the region from past wars increasingly makes ordinary […]
18/09/2016
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Livelihood dynamics in northern Karamoja
The report “Livelihood dynamics in northern Karamoja: a participatory baseline study for the Growth, Health and Governance Program” (2013, 70pp) published by Feinstein International Center of Tufts University bring the findings of a livelihoods assessment made as part of the USAID-funded Growth, Health and Governance Program implemented by Mercy Corps and partners in Karamoja in […]
18/09/2016
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Evaluating policy effects on pastoral development in Ethiopia
The article “Unsustain the sustainable: an evaluation of the legal and policy interventions for pastoral development in Ethiopia” published in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice (2016 6:2 DOI: 10.1186/s13570-016-0049-x) is a critical appraisal of interventions under the Imperial, Derg and Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) governments. Based on an extensive review of pastoral policies, […]
18/09/2016
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Diversifying beyond livestock in northern Kenya
The article “Are there options outside livestock economy? Diversification among households of northern Kenya” published in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice (2016 6:3 DOI: 10.1186/s13570-016-0050-4) looks at whether income diversification helps build resilience of pastoral families. The study applied the Sustainable Livelihood Approach to identify the determinants of diversification among 662 pastoral households in Turkana […]