Welcome to the website of the Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP), an informal advocacy group of European organisations and specialists partnering with pastoralist organisations and specialists in Eastern Africa. The members and partners of the Coalition combine forces to lobby their national governments and European and Eastern African bodies to explicitly recognise and support pastoralism and pastoralists in the drylands of Eastern Africa. We are also in the core team of the international movement that succeeded in gaining UN designation of the International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists in 2026. On this website for our Coalition, you can find the latest news, documents and articles related to the activities and interests of CELEP.
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26/07/2016
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Pastoralists’ session in FAO/IFAD Farmers’ Forum
Immediately before the FAO/IFAD Farmers’ Forum on in mid-February 2016, CELEP partners took part in a special session with pastoralists and other extensive livestock breeders. Benjamin Mutambukah (Uganda) provided a Summary Report on the event. The Special Session was co-organised by IFAD and VSF International at IFAD Headquarters in Rome and involved 18 representatives from […]
27/06/2016
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Controlling prosopis through use in Somaliland
CELEP member PENHA (Pastoral and Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa) held a workshop on the control and use of Prosopis juliflora on May 2016 in Hargeisa, Somaliland. Prosopis is an invasive woody species that has been destroying pasture throughout large parts of Eastern Africa and the Horn. The workshop focused on how pastoralists […]
27/06/2016
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HLPE Food Security & Nutrition on pastoralism
On 1 July 2016, the High-Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) on Food Security and Nutrition launched its tenth report “Sustainable agricultural development for food security and nutrition: what roles for livestock?” One of the four systems of livestock rearing examined by the HLPE is pastoralism. They call for recognising and supporting the unique role of […]
23/06/2016
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Livestock ownership and human nutrition in Karamoja
Karamoja is a predominantly pastoralist region in the northeast of Uganda characterised by a semi-arid savanna and a highly variable climate. Pastoralism has been the main source of livelihood for centuries but is not recognised as a viable production system by the Ugandan Government and many development actors. On the contrary, pastoralism has been called […]
12/06/2016
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Tanzania pastoralists threatened by evictions
The report “Tanzania pastoralists threatened: eviction, human rights violations and loss of livelihood” (2016, 92pp), brought out by the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA), explores evictions of pastoralists and other conflicts over pastoralists’ land in Tanzania, mainly within the past decade. The IWGIA study involved gathering the available information and visiting affected pastoralist […]
