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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 […]
02/10/2012
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Pastoralism and climate change
The VSF (Vétérinaires Sans Frontières) report on The role of small-scale livestock farming in climate change and food security includes pastoralists as “small-scale livestock farmers” – indeed, it gives particular attention to them in this report, including some examples from East Africa. The report looks at: i) how sustainable small-scale livestock farming (SSLF) systems are […]
30/09/2012
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Pastoral women as peacemakers
Research commissioned by the Community-Based Animal Health and Participatory Epidemiology (CAPE) Unit of the African Union’s Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU/IBAR) in 2003 looked into the traditional roles of pastoral women in peace and conflict, seeking to gain a better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of different methods for working with pastoral women […]
30/09/2012
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Early warning in Afar & Somali: what worked & what didn’t
The Preparedness Improves Livelihoods and Resilience (PILLARII) project sought to improve the drought preparedness of pastoralists in Somali and Afar Regions of Ethiopia. With the support of ECHO (European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office), Save the Children UK facilitated community contingency planning and early-warning systems (EWS) which were meant to lead to community-level responses to shocks […]
30/09/2012
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Livestock mobility in Chad: desk review
As part of the project “Securing Pastoralism in East and West Africa: Protecting and Promoting Livestock Mobility”, a desk review was made on pastoralism in Chad. Livestock mobility is important in this country for both seasonal transhumance and for access to domestic and international markets. The study focuses on the former. It gives a brief […]
30/09/2012
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Voices of Kenyan Maasai about climate change
As part of the project “Conversations with the Earth“, which brings indigenous voices from around the world to convey their experiences of climate change, Maasai youth near Oltepesi in Kajiado District, Kenya, made their own film. They documented the impacts of the 2009 drought in their area, killing livestock and people, threatening their livelihoods and […]