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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 […]
26/03/2023
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Effects of Ethiopia–Kenya border on pastoralists’ resource use
The international border between Ethiopia and Kenya does not consider the livelihood and customary practices of local people. The two countries have ethnic groups living in similar ecosystems, sharing similar livelihood systems, trans-clan and transboundary trade networks, and transboundary migratory patterns. Before colonial times, communities moved freely with their herds, but the creation of the […]
22/03/2023
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Making green energy safe for pastoralists
One of the authors of the study on Pastoralism-and-large-scale-REnewable-energy-and-green-hydrogen-projects, Hussein Wario, Director of the Centre for Research & Development in Drylands (CRDD) in northern Kenya, gave his perspective on the study findings in a blog for Project Syndicate “Making green energy safe for pastoralists“ – also available in Spanish (Que la energiá verde sea segura para […]
20/03/2023
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Resilience & adaptation of pastoral herd mobility in West Darfur, Sudan
The dynamics of herd mobility in West Darfur, Sudan, a region affected by persistent conflict, is reported in the article “The resilience and adaptation of pastoralist livestock mobility in a protracted conflict setting: West Darfur, Sudan” (2023, Nomadic Peoples 27: 3-31, doi: 10.3197/np.2023.270102) by Hussein Sulieman and Helen Young. They examine the annual cycle and […]
15/03/2023
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Revival of the drylands & pastoral livelihoods in Eastern Africa
In the article “The revival of the drylands: re-learning resilience to climate change from pastoral livelihoods in East Africa” (Climate and Development 2023, https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2022.2160197), Greta Semplici and Tom Campbell review different waves of rural politics and development in the East African drylands, with a focus on Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands, in the context of climate change. They […]
13/03/2023
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Empowerment of pastoralist women in Sudan
Pastoralist women in Eastern Sudan managed to improve their livelihoods by producing alternative animal feed from local resources. They became able to do so after receiving training from a local pastoralist organisation supported by Oxfam Novib’s partner PENHA (Pastoral & Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa), a CELEP member. In the case study Empowerment of […]