Pastoralism, Policy & Power (page 58)
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 […]
Land grab to develop pastoral areas in Ethiopia?
Two articles on large-scale land investment in Ethiopia – including the pastoral lowlands – have been published in the first 2012 issues of the Journal of Peasant Studies and are available free online, as part of the journal’s contribution to ongoing policy debates around the UN Committee on Food Security Voluntary Guidelines on land. The […]
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, […]
The futures of pastoralism in Africa
On 1 March 2012, Andy Catley of the Africa Regional Office of Tufts University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, made a briefing to the European Parliament in Brussels. He highlighted the many different futures of pastoralism, differentiating between those pastoralists who are “moving up” and taking advantage of the high market demand for livestock products and those pastoralists […]
Dryland recovery & development in Horn of Africa
Priorities for dryland recovery and development in the Horn of Africa: the need for community control and empowerment, education and pro-poor infrastructure – a 2-page policy brief by REGLAP (Regional Learning & Advocacy Programme for Vulnerable Dryland Communities), OCHA (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) and FAO (UN Food and Agriculture Association), September […]