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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 […]
22/03/2016
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CapEx on supporting pastoral development in Africa
In 2015, the Pastoralism subgroup of the Agriculture and Food Security Network of SDC (Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation) worked through a process of “Capitalisation of Experiences in Supporting Pastoral Development – Addressing Vulnerabilities of Pastoralist Societies in Sub-Saharan Africa”. The final products of this CapEx process included nine briefs written by SDC Programme Officers (see […]
21/03/2016
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Three handbooks on participatory rangeland management
Garba Tula District in Isiolo County, northern Kenya, is home to about 40,000 pastoralists, mainly Borana. Most of the land is held in trust by the country councils, who strictly control allocation. Decisions on land use and management were taken out of the hands of the communities’ traditional authorities. The dryland programme of the IUCN […]
26/02/2016
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Harnessing pastoral knowledge for climate-change adaptation
The paper “Harnessing pastoral knowledge for climate change adaptation in the drylands” presents experience from northern Tanzania and Kenya using a mapping system based on Geographic Information System (GIS) that enables pastoralist communities to demonstrate, in a ‘language’ understood by policymakers and planners, the logic behind the communities’ livelihood strategies. The paper (37pp) was presented […]
15/02/2016
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Digital mapping by pastoralists in Kenya and Tanzania
The 16-page article Participatory digital map-making in dry areas of Kenya and Tanzania, published in Participatory Learning and Action 66 (2013), describes a natural resource management project in which pastoralist communities in Kenya and Tanzania used Google Earth imagery to identify key resources on a global reference grid. The pastoralists were able to navigate the […]
14/02/2016
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Review of FAO’s & IFAD’s engagement in pastoral development
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) mandated a joint evaluation of their projects related to pastoral development. The report FAO’s and IFAD’s engagement in pastoral development: joint evaluation synthesis (2016, 115pp) reviews 194 projects somehow related to pastoralism that were formulated in 2003–13 […]