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Environmental Prize to Ikal Angelei, Friend of Lake Turkana
The founder of Friends of Lake Turkana (FoLT) – and CELEP member – Ikal Angelei has been awarded the 2012 Goldman Environmental Prize for Africa in recognition of her efforts to save Lake Turkana and the livelihoods of the pastoralists living in the Lower Omo Basin and around the lake. She started a campaign to […]
Pastoral land tenure options – implications for Ethiopia
The briefing paper “Land tenure options: Lessons learned and implications for Ethiopia” describes what was learnt during two recent experience-sharing events: i) a visit to Niger and Mali organised by Oxfam GB and USAID for government and NGO representatives from Ethiopia, Uganda and Somaliland; and ii) the “Making Rangelands Secure” learning route. A second briefing […]
Good practices in disaster risk reduction in the Horn
REGLAP (Regional Learning and Advocacy Programme for Vulnerable Dryland Communities) has issued a second collection of good-practice examples in drought cycle management in the Horn of Africa. Disaster Risk Reduction in the Drylands of the Horn of Africa – Edition 2 – contains 52 pages on experiences in responding to drought, building resilient livelihoods and working […]
Forced displacement of pastoralists in Gambella
According to Human Rights Watch, the Ethiopian Government under its “villagization” programme is forcibly relocating about 70,000 people – many of them pastoralists and agropastoralists – from the western Gambella Region to new villages. The report Waiting for death: forced displacement and ‘villagization’ in Ethiopia’s Gambella Region examines the first year of Gambella’s villagization program. It […]
Strengthening voices: Tanzanian pastoralists shape their future
Patterns and intensity of rainfall are changing and the seasons are becoming more unpredictable in the drylands of Tanzania, as is happening throughout the drylands in East Africa. Pastoralism provides over 90% of the meat and milk products consumed in Tanzania. Pastoralists make productive use of the scattered and changing resources in the dryland ecosystems, […]