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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 […]
20/11/2015
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Making Rangelands Secure Bulletin 6 (Aug 2015)
20/11/2015
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Pastoral raiding and violent conflict in NW Kenya
Various pastoral communities in the Horn of Africa have traditionally used raiding as a way of restocking herds, especially after droughts or disease outbreaks. In recent years, however, livestock raiding has become more frequent, violent and destructive. In the paper “Raiding pastoral livelihoods: motives and effects of violent conflict in north-western Kenya” (Pastoralism: Research, Policy […]
20/11/2015
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Where have all the nomads gone?
Mobile African pastoralists are probably undercounted or excluded from many data sources because of the difficulties in enumerating them. In the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it is expected that everyone will be counted and their characteristics measured. It is therefore important to develop appropriate strategies for including mobile pastoralists. In the article “Where have all […]
20/11/2015
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Changing gender roles in diversified agropastoralism in West Pokot, Kenya
Earlier studies in drylands have shown that, while gender roles are becoming more flexible, privatisation and formalisation of land tenure tends to marginalise women, while environmental degradation leads to gender-differentiated changes in workload. Chepareria, a ward in West Pokot County, has undergone such tenure and environmental changes and is now dominated by private rangeland enclosures. […]
20/11/2015
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