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01/09/2023
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Newsletters of Maasai International Solidarity Alliance (MISA)
19/03/2022
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UN declared IYRP in 2026 !
On 15 March 2022, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) declared 2026 the International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists (IYRP). This final approval is the culmination of an IYRP movement that grew over several years to become a global coalition of over 300 pastoralist and supporting organisations. CELEP – through its member organisation Agrecol Association […]
01/06/2021
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Pastoralism is the future – animated video
Man-made climate change is creating conditions on our planet that are increasingly characterised by variability and unpredictability. Pastoralists use variability to their advantage. Their production systems guide us to a sustainable future. Find out how they do it in this 2:23-min animated video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeqITzac9Ac This video film was created by Cartoonbase and realised by CELEP […]
25/10/2017
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Pastoralism and its future
As part of a project exploring the impact of climate change on food security and livelihoods of small-scale family farmers in Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Zimbabwe, IRIN published a “factfile” entitled “Pastoralism and its future” (October 2017). In the drylands, the extreme variations in weather mean that pastoralists have to be highly adaptive and deploy […]
24/10/2017
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Borana women’s perception of role change in livestock care
In the Borana pastoral system, all family members are engaged in livestock management but, in recent times, external changes at various levels have affected the labour requirements and division of labour. In the study “Caring for livestock: Borana women’s perceptions of their changing role in livestock management in southern Ethiopia” (2015), Marie-Luise Hertkorn et al […]
20/10/2017
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Climate information for the poor in Kenya’s drylands
Climate variability and change affect millions of poor people in Kenya, especially in the drylands. Investments are being made in developing Climate Information Services (CIS) tailored to the needs of pastoralists and agropastoralists, to help them adapt to the impact of climate change. The Institute for Development Studies (IDS) Policy Briefing 145 “Improving the impact […]
20/10/2017
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Maasai responses to climate change in Kenya
Maasai responses to climate change in Kenya Climate change has especially strong impacts in the Eastern African drylands where institutions and governance systems are weak. In Kenya, the herds of the formerly nomadic Maasai pastoralists have been suffering from persistent drought. The paper “Climate change responses among the Maasai community in Kenya” (2017, 13pp) […]