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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21/10/2018
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Payment for ecosystem services (PES) for pastoralists
Payment for ecosystem services (PES) is gaining popularity as an environmental and development policy tool. There have been important experiences in implementing PES in crop farming and forestry, but PES has seldom been applied for pastoralists in the rangelands. The study “Operationalizing payments for ecosystem services for pastoralists in rangeland settings” by Linda Pappagallo (2018, […]
20/10/2018
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Gendered vulnerability to climate change in semi-arid areas
Recent research indicates that vulnerabilities to impacts of climate change are gendered, but policy approaches aimed at strengthening local communities’ adaptive capacity largely fail to recognise this. The paper “Gendered vulnerabilities to climate change: insights from the semi-arid regions of Africa and Asia” by Nitya Rao et al, published in Climate and Development (2017) interrogates […]
05/10/2018
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“Values of pastoralism, with a focus on Eastern Africa” – open discussion briefing
At this year’s Tropentag conference in Ghent, CELEP had the opportunity to lead an open discussion about the values of pastoralism with a focus on Eastern Africa. The four members of the panel were : Dr Brigitte Kaufmann: Professor for Social Ecology of Tropical and Subtropical Land-use Systems at the University of Hohenheim. Dr Ann […]
30/09/2018
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Livestock by-products in Somaliland bring income for vulnerable groups
Livestock and livestock product exports are the main sources of foreign currency earning in Somaliland. Adding value to the livestock products provides additional income. The paper “An assessment of the livestock by-products value chains in Somaliland: the case of bones and tallow” by Nadhem Mtimet et al (published in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice 2018 […]
29/09/2018
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Gender differences among Afar pastoralists in vulnerability to climate change
Researchers at Mekelle University, Ethiopia, investigated factors that determine the level of vulnerability to climate change and adaptive capacity among Afar men and women pastoralists. The results are reported in the article “Traditional gender inequalities limit pastoral women’s opportunities for adaptation to climate change: evidence from the Afar pastoralists of Ethiopia” (Pastoralism: Research, Policy and […]
