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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 […]
18/05/2014
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Award-winning article on pastoral women in Kenya & Ethiopia
The PARIMA (Pastoral Risk Management) project in Ethiopia and Kenya found that sustainable ways to improve lives in pastoral regions in eastern Africa have more to do with raising hope and building local people’s capacity to solve problems and manage risks rather than pushing new technology or range-management innovations. Investments in building the capacities of […]
17/05/2014
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Land grabbing for conservation?
The 4-page IIED Briefing Paper “Land grabbing: is conservation part of the problem or the solution?” presents the experience of international-development, wildlife and human-rights practitioners shared at a symposium on land grabbing and conservation in March 2013. Weak governance and poor land-use planning mean that commercial “land grabs” often damage biodiversity and dispossess people from […]
28/04/2014
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From commitment to action: funding to build resilience in the Horn
In 2011 the member states of the Inter-Governmental Agency for Development (IGAD) and donor organisations launched the IGAD Drought Disaster Resilience and Sustainability Initiative (IDDRSI). It seeks to reduce disaster risks and improve livelihoods in the Horn using an integrated programming framework at national and regional levels, and to shift from humanitarian funding to development […]
29/03/2014
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CELEP meeting on pastoralism for European Parliament delegation in Sudan
21/03/2014
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AGIR: Global Alliance for Resilience Initiative
This 4-page factsheet (February 2014) “AGIR: building resilience to food and nutrition crises in the Sahel & West Africa”, compiled by the European Commission Humanitarian Office (ECHO), brings facts and figures about the humanitarian situation in the Sahel and West Africa and the EU response through contribution to the Global Alliance for Resilience Initiative (AGIR) […]