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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 […]
04/09/2015
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CELEP info lunch at Tropentag in Berlin
23/08/2015
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Lessons for livestock marketing in the Horn
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) published a review of global literature on the “Horn of Africa livestock market system: lessons from elsewhere” (2015, 22 pp) commissioned by Mercy Corps with funding from USAID, the Rockefeller Foundation and SIDA under the Global Resilience Challenge. It is focused on understanding efforts made worldwide to address the problem […]
20/08/2015
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Mobile pastoral livelihoods and access to resources
The working paper Mobile livelihoods, patchy resources and shifting rights: approaching pastoral territories (2007, 24pp) of the International Land Coalition (IC) analyses the rationale behind livestock mobility in pastoral systems and the related rights of access to and control over natural resources. It looks at the role of the government and its interaction with pastoralist civil-society […]
20/08/2015
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Inclusive green growth in the Kenyan drylands
Green growth promises to provide the economic incentives that resource-dependent dryland communities need to achieve sustainable inclusive economic development. Kenya’s current devolution process provides an opportunity for green economic planning in the arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) to be informed by local people’s perspectives on needs, priorities, resource conditions and trends, but aligning the necessary […]
19/08/2015
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Formal education & pastoral risk management
An article on the role of formal education in pastoral societies “Can formal education reduce risks for drought-prone pastoralists?“, which appeared in Human Organization in 2009, argues that education should figure prominently in strategies and planning for pastoral risk management, since engaging in labour markets is a critical component of pastoralist livelihoods and this is facilitated […]