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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 […]
08/09/2014
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CELEP 2014 annual meeting in Aachen, Germany
08/09/2014
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FIgures on livestock in the African drylands
Quantitative information on the importance of livestock systems in African drylands is scarce. A new study by Tim Robinson, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), and Giulia Conchedda, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), helps to redress this. The study’s focus countries are Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda […]
29/08/2014
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Making Rangelands Secure Bulletin 5 (May 2014)
Joint village land use planning in Tanzania provides an opportunity for neighbouring villages to formalise previously customary arrangements for sharing of resources and livestock mobility across village boundaries. In Tanzania, the Village Land Act 1999 and the Land Use Planning Act 2007 state that villages should agree on their boundaries, register and certify them with […]
29/08/2014
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Making Rangelands Secure Bulletin 4 (Oct 2013)
29/08/2014
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Valuing pastoralism: Total Economic Valuation studies
The substantial value of pastoral systems remains largely invisible to local, national and regional calculations of economic performance (e.g. the construction of GDP). Official data continue to be used even when their reliability is known to be poor. A complementary framework in cost-benefit analysis, known as Total Economic Valuation (TEV), is increasingly being used by […]