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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31/01/2018
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Advocating for animal health services adapted to pastoralism
How should animal health services be organised so as to provide good-quality community-based services adapted to the needs of pastoralists? Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Belgium (VSFB) – acting CELEP focal point since 2013 – tried to answer this question by holding a series of workshops together with Réseau Billital Maroobe (RBM) in West Africa in 2015-17 […]
24/01/2018
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Opportunities and challenges of Kenya’s Community Land Act
In 2016, Kenya acknowledged customary tenure as producing lawful property rights, not merely rights of occupation and use on government or public lands. The 25-page article “The Community Land Act in Kenya: opportunity and challenges for communities” (2018) by Liz Alden Wily, published in the journal Land 7, 12 (doi:10.3390/land7010012), looks into this new legal […]
15/01/2018
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Long history of livestock marketing by African pastoralists
Development planners today often want to “link pastoralists to market” so that they will sell more of their animals. The book “Customary commerce: a historical reassessment of pastoral livestock marketing in Africa” (1992, 126pp) by Carol Kerven, published by the Overseas Development Institute (London, UK), challenges the assumptions that pastoralists were isolated from the market […]
07/01/2018
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Contribution of livestock to Ugandan economy
A briefing paper of the IGAD Center for Pastoralist Areas & Livestock Development assesses “The contribution of livestock to the Ugandan economy” (2013, 4pp). The study assigns monetary values to the non-marketed goods and services provided by livestock, and estimates the contribution of livestock to the wider national economy – as exports, as inputs into […]
07/01/2018
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Contribution of livestock to Kenyan economy
According to the IGAD Center for Pastoralist Areas & Livestock Development, the contribution of livestock production to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been greatly underestimated in Kenya. The policy brief “The contribution of livestock to the Kenyan economy” (2013, 4pp) estimates that livestock provide about 45% of output from the country’s agriculture and forestry […]
