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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06/08/2017
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Building pastoralists’ resilience in northern Kenya
In Kenya, pastoralism supports nearly 1/4 of the population and is practised in arid and semi-arid areas that cover about 2/3 of the country. It is an adaptive mechanism to harsh ecological conditions unsuitable for cropping. A major challenge to pastoralism is drought that reduces forage supply and leads to livestock deaths. The paper “Building […]
06/08/2017
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Pastoralism & culture in Karamoja, Uganda
The blog article “Pastoralism and culture in Karamoja Region” was written by Loupa Pius of the Dodoth Agropastoralist Development Organization (DADO), a partner organisation of CELEP. This appeared in the ELLA Community blog series. ELLA started as a network for Evidence and Lessons from Latin America but now includes also partners from Africa and Asia. […]
05/08/2017
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How local adaptation to climate change affects incomes in Afar, Ethiopia
Rural communities in the drylands of the Afar Region of Ethiopia are severely exposed to the impacts of climate change, having experienced frequent droughts followed by crop failure and livestock deaths. The paper “The effects of adaptation to climate change on income of households in rural Ethiopia” by Melaku Berhe et al, published in Pastoralism: Research, […]
05/08/2017
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Colonial & post-colonial changes in role of Borana women
The colonial experiences of pastoralist women have been largely ignored in the literature on Africa. The paper “Colonial and post-colonial changes and impact on pastoral women’s roles and status” by Fatuma Guyo, published in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice (2017 7:13), looks at pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial periods to locate the impact of colonisation on pastoral […]
05/08/2017
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Building resilience to natural disasters among Borana pastoralists
The paper “Building resilience through social capital as a counter-measure to natural disasters in Africa: a case study from a project in pastoralist and agro-pastoralist communities in Borena, in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia” by Go Shimada and Miki Motomura, published in African Study Monographs, Suppl. 53: 35–51 (March 2017), attempts to make a quantitative […]
