<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Sorry for any cross-posting!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">FYI: ILRI Director General Jimmy Smith’s op-ed on pastoralism, published in <i class="">The East African</i>.<div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/oped/comment/african-pastoralists-skills-to-beat-climate-stress-earn-more-3791522" class=""><b class=""><i class="">https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/oped/comment/african-pastoralists-skills-to-beat-climate-stress-earn-more-3791522</i></b></a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; 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color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><i style="font-size: 9px;" class="">Dr Ann Waters-Bayer</i></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><i style="font-size: 9px;" class="">Agrecol Association for AgriCulture & Ecology</i></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><i style="font-size: 9px;" class="">Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP)</i></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><i style="font-size: 9px;" class="">International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists (IYRP2026) Global Coordination Group</i></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><i style="font-size: 9px;" class="">E: <a href="mailto:waters-bayer@web.de" class="">waters-bayer@web.de</a> / <a href="mailto:waters-bayer@agrecol.de" class="">waters-bayer@agrecol.de</a></i></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><i style="font-size: 9px;" class="">S: ann-waters</i></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><i style="font-size: 9px;" class="">W: <a href="http://www.agrecol.de" class="">www.agrecol.de</a> / <a href="http://www.celep.info" class="">www.celep.info</a> / <a href="http://www.iyrp.info" class="">www.iyrp.info</a></i></div></div></div></div></div>
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">ILRI News <<a href="mailto:noreply+feedproxy@google.com" class="">noreply+feedproxy@google.com</a>></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">ILRI news</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">7 May 2022 at 13:28:37 PM CEST<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:waters-bayer@web.de" class="">waters-bayer@web.de</a><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="emailbody" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px 2em; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; font-size: 13px;" class=""><table style="border: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; width: 642px;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td width="99%" style="vertical-align: top;" class=""><h1 style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px;" class=""><a href="https://www.ilri.org/" title="(https://www.ilri.org/)" style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136); font-size: 22px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" class="">ILRI news</a></h1></td><td width="1%" class=""></td></tr></tbody></table><hr style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><table id="itemcontentlist" class=""><tbody class=""><tr xmlns="" class=""><td style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><p style="margin: 1em 0px 3px;" class=""><a name="1" href="https://www.ilri.org/news/be-determined?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" class="">African pastoralists need support to beat climate change and earn more - The East African</a></p><p style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin: 9px 0px 3px; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; font-size: 13px;" class=""><span class="">Posted:</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>27 Apr 2022 02:00 PM PDT</p><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; font-size: 13px;" class=""><p class=""><em class="">An op-ed from ILRI director general Jimmy Smith highlighting the need to invest in East Africa's pastoral communities was recently published in The East African. Reproduced here is an excerpt from the article.</em></p><p class="">The latest report from United Nations’ climate experts is gaining widespread attention as a dire warning of what the future may hold.</p><p class="">But here in East Africa, where we have endured a string of failed rainy seasons that are without precedent, climate change is already a here-and-now problem.</p><p class="">You can see it cruelly manifested on a landscape littered with...</p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table id="footer" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); padding-top: 4px; margin-top: 1.5em; width: 642px;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td style="text-align: left; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px 6px 1.2em 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">You are subscribed to email updates from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.ilri.org/" class="">ILRI News</a>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">To stop receiving these emails, you may<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=ls-nEYUz96Oihilo6D8Dn77D4T0" class="">unsubscribe now</a>.</td><td style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px 6px 1.2em 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: right; vertical-align: top;" class="">Email delivery powered by Google</td></tr><tr class=""><td colspan="2" style="text-align: left; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px 6px 1.2em 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>