Pastoralism & Extractives (page 5)
Critical review of agricultural growth corridors in eastern Africa
“Agricultural growth corridors on the eastern seaboard of Africa: an overview” (2017, 40pp) by Rebecca Smalley is the first Working Paper of the Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) programme of the Future Agricultures Consortium. It reviews the recent emergence of agricultural growth corridors and other types of corridor with a prominent agricultural component, focused […]
PASTRES seeks global lessons from pastoralist responses to uncertainty
PASTRES (Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Resilience: Global Lessons from the Margins) is a 5-year research project (2018–23) funded through an ERC (European Research Council) Advanced Grant. It is hosted by the STEPS Centre at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, UK, and the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Drawing insights from across […]
Gender, land & mining in pastoralist Tanzania
In the Women’s Land Tenure Security Project (WOLTS), the development consultancy organisation Mokoro sought ways to improve gender equity in land-tenure governance and to secure the land rights of vulnerable peoples within pastoralist communities in Tanzania and Mongolia. In 2016–17, working together with the Tanzanian civil society organisation HakiMadini, it studied the state of and […]
Oil development in Turkana area of north Kenya
In the 15-minute digital story consisting of photos and spoken text, “Perilous prospects: oil in northern Kenya” (2017), Jeremy Lind of the UK-based Institute of Development Studies (IDS) describes the changing situation of Turkana pastoralists and other people in and around the small town of Lokichar in Turkana County of northern Kenya. This is at […]
LAPSSET project & rural politics in northern Kenya
In 2012, construction began on the Lamu Port–South Sudan–Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) corridor in northern Kenya. This is designed to connect Kenya, South Sudan and Ethiopia with new transport infrastructure, including a highway, railway and pipeline. According to planners, it will drive economic growth by improving trade, attracting investors and stimulating rural development along the transport […]