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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 […]
12/07/2017
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CELEP Update July 2017
08/07/2017
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Rangeland’s contribution to household food & income in Uganda
The article “Contribution of rangelands to household food basket and income in a pastoral area in Uganda” by Betty Mbolany et al (Journal of Food Security 4 (3) (2016): 68–75) examines the relationship between the household food basket, income and rangelands in Nakaseke District, Uganda. A survey of 180 households using semi-structured questionnaires revealed that […]
08/07/2017
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Supporting Tanzanian pastoralists facing climate change
In Tanzania, Irish Aid set up a Learning Platform (LP) on climate change, which seeks to generate evidence from case studies on effective ways of mainstreaming climate-risk management into development planning. One of the case studies commissioned by the LP was on three projects involving pastoralists, implemented by TNRF (Tanzania Natural Resources Forum), CARE, Oxfam […]
08/07/2017
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Economic value of camel milk in Borana
As part of a series of reports synthesising the findings of field research by Masters students in Ethiopian universities into the contribution of pastoral production to the national economy, the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) published the Country Report “Economic value of camel milk in pastoralist communities in Ethiopia: findings from Yabello district, […]
08/07/2017
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Nomadic custodians: securing land-use rights
As part of the Global Call to Action in Indigenous and Community Land Rights, the International Land Coalition (ILC) brought out the 16-pp colourful brochure “Nomadic custodians: a case for securing pastoralist land rights” (2016, 16pp). This focuses on the need to secure land rights for the world’s pastoralists, who use land under community-based governance […]