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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 […]
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 […]