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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16/08/2018
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Community protocols for pastoralists & livestock keepers
The CELEP member organisation LPP (League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development) and the Local Livestock for Empowerment (LIFE) Network have brought out a manual on “Community protocols for pastoralists and livestock keepers: claiming rights under the Convention on Biological Diversity” (2018, 101pp). A community protocol is a document, produced by a local community, […]
15/08/2018
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Livelihood diversity in Borana pastoralist households in Ethiopia
The paper “Determinants of livelihood diversification strategies in Borena pastoralist communities of Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia” by Amare Molla, published in Agriculture & Food Security (2018 7:41), looks into the factors that determine choices of livelihood strategies by Borana pastoralist households in southern Oromia. Data were collected using both qualitative and quantitative methods from 110 household […]
10/08/2018
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Samburu male youth’s visions for future
Land fragmentation, human population growth, climate change and modernisation create challenges for pastoral livelihoods worldwide. These changes oblige many young pastoralists to make new types of decisions about their future. In the study “Paired comparison of visions for the future among young pastoralists and students in Samburu, Kenya” by Brett Bruyere et al, published in […]
09/08/2018
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Maasai gender relations in managing dry-season pastures
The paper “Getting by in the dry season: ololilis in Tanzania” by Alessandra Galiè and Ben Likuyu is a chapter (pp 93–100) in the book A different kettle of fish? Gender integration in livestock and fish research published in 2016 by the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock & Fish and the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT). […]
02/08/2018
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Afar pastoralist households’ resilience to climate change in Ethiopia
Climate change and extremes are major challenges to pastoral production systems. Alternative ways of making a living could determine a pastoralist household’s resilience. The study “Understanding resilience of pastoralists to climate change and variability in the southern Afar Region, Ethiopia” by Muluken Mekuyie et al, published in 2018 in Climate Risk Management 20: 64-77, looked […]
