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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 […]
09/07/2023
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One Health in Turkana, Kenya
In the CABI series of One Health cases, Evan Griffith and colleagues in the Turkana County Government Directorate of Veterinary Services have published the case of “One Health in Turkana, Kenya: applications and lessons learned” (2023, 15pp). The marginalisation of pastoralist communities in northern Kenya, including the lack of basic infrastructure and services, compounded by […]
30/06/2023
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Women’s camel-milk cooperative resilient to drought in Kenya
Camel milk is popular throughout much of Kenya and Somalia. A women’s community initiative in Isiolo in northern Kenya has set up a cooperative to collect, process and market this product. While the venture faces considerable challenges, including a prolonged drought in the region, the Anolei Women’s Camel Dairy Cooperative is determined to further develop […]
25/06/2023
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Institutional rhetoric vs local reality: Burunge WMA, Tanzania
Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) are meant to promote wildlife conservation and rural development in Tanzania and enhance local livelihoods. In the paper, Institutional rhetoric versus local reality: a case study of Burunge Wildlife Management Area, Tanzania (2018) by Rose Kicheleri et al, published in SAGE Open 8(2), the authors found that the participation of local […]
23/06/2023
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Formalising pastoral land tenure in Eastern Africa
Legal frameworks for communal land rights in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania are now gaining momentum. Questions can be raised as to whether, how and to what extent these frameworks take into account the complexities of pastoral resources. In the paper “Can formalisation of pastoral land tenure overcome its paradoxes? Reflections from East Africa” (published in […]
13/06/2023
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Exclusion of pastoralist women in East and Horn of Africa
Pastoralist societies in eastern Africa and the Horn are increasingly marginalised as a result of expansion of cultivation and nature conservation and an increase in human population. In these already marginalised societies, pastoralist women are further excluded, leading to high vulnerability, inequality and dependency. The women have little access to social services or productive assets, […]