Pastoralism & Extractives (page 6)
Testing pastoralist community consent: oil in Turkana
Oil discoveries in the South Lokichar Basin in Turkana County have brought Kenya into the global spotlight of emerging oil producers. At the same time, questions remain about the impact these discoveries will have on the future of the pastoralist communities who live there. The Oxfam Briefing Paper “Testing community consent: Tullow Oil project in […]
Formalising land rights to dispossess Tanzanian herders & farmers
Formalisation of land rights is proving to be a mechanism to justify dispossession of pastoralists’ and small-scale farmers’ land to support the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT). So argues the article “Dispossession through formalization: Tanzania and the G8 land agenda in Africa” published in the Asian Journal of African Studies (2016, Vol. 40: […]
CELEP Update November 2016
The CELEP Update for November 2016 reports on past, ongoing and planned activities of the CELEP Focal Point at VSF–Belgium. This issue brings information about CELEP’s stakeholder meeting on land and pastoralism during the MEP visit to Tanzania, the CELEP annual meeting 2016, the photo exhibition on pastoralism in the European Parliament, the CELEP lunchtime […]
Maasai community video for advocacy
Maasai community members in Loliondo, Tanzania, have been trained to make their own videos to help them resist land-grabs by foreign investors. In 1992, a luxury hunting company from the United Arab Emirates occupied 1500 km2 of village land in Loliondo to set up a private game reserve beside the Serengeti National Park. Since then, […]
Tanzania’s Village Land Act 15 years on
In Rural 21 (3/2016), Godfrey Massay of the Tanzania Natural Resource Forum reviews “Tanzania’s Village Land Act 15 years on”. A wave of land reforms became operational in Tanzania in 2001. The goals were ambitious – encouraging land registration and titling, and empowering women and other vulnerable groups – but the results are disillusioning. Implementation […]