CELEP Documents (page 19)
CELEP statement on International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists
We, the 25 member organisations and 7 partner organisations of the Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP), join the global movement towards a United Nations International Year of the Rangelands and Pastoralists. Pastoralism plays a critical role in the ecological, social and economic sustainability of drylands worldwide. In Africa, drylands make up […]
EC InfoPoint: Moving herds, changing paradigms
On 11 October 2016, CELEP organised a lunchtime conference at the External Cooperation InfoPoint of the European Commission (EC) in Brussels to draw attention to the importance of mobile pastoralism. This is increasingly under threat in many African countries because of changes in land use and management, climate change and conflict. At the same time, […]
Journalists conduct research on the New Alliance in Tanzania
CELEP has worked with the European Parliament on a report on the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (NAFSN). The NAFSN is a public–private partnership which “commits to policy changes and investments that accelerate implementation of African country plans for improving food security and nutrition”. There is an interest for CELEP, as some of […]
CELEP Update November 2016
The CELEP Update for November 2016 reports on past, ongoing and planned activities of the CELEP Focal Point at VSF–Belgium. This issue brings information about CELEP’s stakeholder meeting on land and pastoralism during the MEP visit to Tanzania, the CELEP annual meeting 2016, the photo exhibition on pastoralism in the European Parliament, the CELEP lunchtime […]
CELEP photo exhibition in European Parliament
On 10 October, immediately after the 2016 annual meeting of the Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP) in London, CELEP members and partners opened a photo exhibition on pastoralism in Eastern Africa in the European Parliament in Brussels. The aim of the exhibition was to raise awareness on the importance of pastoralism […]