CELEP Documents (page 18)
CELEP Update October 2017
The CELEP update for October 2017 reports on past, ongoing and planned activities of the CELEP Focal Point at VSF–Belgium and the Regional Focal Point at RECONCILE in Kenya. This 6-page issue includes information about efforts to integrate pastoralists into the International Decade of Family Farming, a side event on pastoralist women recently held at […]
Role and value of pastoralism
A 4-page position paper of the Coalition of European Lobbies on Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP) on Recognising the role and value of pastoralism and pastoralists has been updated and published as CELEP Policy Brief 1. We, the Coalition of European Lobbies on Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP), regard pastoralism as a rational and viable economic land-use […]
CELEP Update March 2017
The CELEP update for March 2017 reports on past, ongoing and planned activities of the CELEP Focal Point at VSF–Belgium and the Regional Focal Point at RECONCILE in Kenya. This issue brings information about CELEP’s advocacy for an International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP) in the year 2020 and involvement in the World Bank […]
CELEP Update February 2017
The CELEP Update for February 2017 reports on past, ongoing and planned activities of the CELEP Focal Point at VSF–Belgium. This issue brings information about our involvement in advocating for an International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists (IYRP) in 2020, our preparations for the World Bank Conference on Land & Poverty in March 2017, the […]
CELEP statement on International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists
We, the 25 member organisations and 7 partner organisations of the Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP), join the global movement towards a United Nations International Year of the Rangelands and Pastoralists. Pastoralism plays a critical role in the ecological, social and economic sustainability of drylands worldwide. In Africa, drylands make up […]