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01/09/2023
By: Ann

Newsletters of Maasai International Solidarity Alliance (MISA)

19/03/2022
By: Ann

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
By: Ann

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 […]

17/11/2012
By: Ann

Maasai-owned market and slaughterhouse

The Keekenyoike Market and Slaughterhouse is a community-owned business established by a group of 16 Maasai in 1981 in Kajiado County in southeast Kenya. The slaughterhouse is an example of innovation and learning in community-managed livestock enterprises. It was designed to function as a social enterprise with strong social social-insurance mechanisms for the local community. […]

17/11/2012
By: Ann

Anolei Women’s Camel Milk Cooperative

In the Greater Isiolo Region of northern Kenya, a self-help group of five Somali women started 15 years ago to sell camel milk to relatives living in town. In the meantime, this group has expanded to 64 members in the Anolei Women’s Camel Milk Cooperative, which buys milk from camel herders and sells it up […]

08/11/2012
By: Ann

Tradition in transition in Karamoja, Uganda

08/11/2012
By: Ann

Lamu Port corridor threatens pastoralists

07/11/2012
By: Ann

The land we graze: pastoralists defend their rights

In 2011, the report The land we graze: a synthesis of case studies about how pastoralists’ organizations defend their land rights was published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (IUCN–ESARO). It analyses and synthesises case studies from 17 partners in four continents who are […]

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