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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 […]
19/08/2014
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Pastoralists’ access to and management of natural resources
We, the “Coalition of European Lobbies on Eastern African Pastoralism”, believe that access to natural resources such as land, water, pastures and forests is of key importance to pastoralism. Pastoralists need to have control over and access to land and water in order to maintain their livelihoods and maximise their productivity. National and regional laws […]
CELEP update August 2014
02/08/2014
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Pastoral responses to crisis in the Horn
A working paper of the Future Agricultures Consortium “Into the fold: what pastoral responses to crisis tell us about the future of pastoralism in the Horn” (2014, 20pp) by Jeremy Lind and Lina Ribera Barrero looks at how pastoral livelihoods are likely to evolve in the Horn of Africa as the area becomes increasingly incorporated […]
28/07/2014
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Community-based animal health workers in the Horn of Africa
Community-based animal health worker (CAHW) services evolved in eastern Africa in the late 1980s, especially in more remote pastoralist areas where conventional veterinary services were limited or absent. Although controversial, CAHWs became recognised as a critical approach for rinderpest eradication in conflict-affected areas such as South Sudan and the Afar region of Ethiopia. During the […]
12/07/2014
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Devolved adaptation funds in Kenya’s drylands
Kenya’s new Constitution (2010) grants county governments authority and responsibility fort he socio-economic development of their county according to local priorities. This provides an opportunity to test a model for devolved County Adaptation Funds (CAFs) to prepare county governments to access global climate finance for adaptation and climate-resilient development. With funding from the UK Department […]