Pastoralism & Extractives (page 7)
Land grabbing and human rights
The Directorate-General for External Policies of the European Parliament issued a report Land grabbing and human rights (2016, 130pp) on the involvement of European corporate and financial entities in land grabbing outside the European Union. The report refers several times to pastoralists and explicitly mentions them in the introduction: “The same applies to pastoralist communities. […]
People in the way of progress: Lake Turkana Wind Power
Lake Turkana Wind Power is the largest private investment in Kenya, funded by Danish and international companies and investors, who now await a court decision on whether the land for the project was legally acquired. The 40-page report issued by DanWatch “A people in the way of progress” (2016) came out of the first of […]
Wind project on Lake Turkana
The article “Wind brengt welvaart, maar niet zonder slag of sloot” (Wind brings prosperity, but not without a battle) on the Lake Turkana Wind Project in northern Kenya was published in the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant on 11 July 2015. CELEP offers here an unofficial English translation of the article, because so little information is available in English […]
Turkana aquifer and pastoralist development
The Drylands Learning and Capacity Building Initiative DLC (formerly the Regional Learning and Advocacy Programme REGLAP) has issued a discussion brief about development perspectives in view of the discovery of the huge Lotokipi aquifer in Turkana in northern Kenya. The brief, entitled “The Turkana aquifer discoveries and development proposals” (2014, 9pp), highlights the key findings […]
Karamojong evicted after land acquisition in Uganda
Members of the Karamoja Development Forum compiled a 30-page report “Take anything, leave our land” (2015) on two cases of land acquisition by state agencies in Nakapiripirit and Napak Districts of the Karamoja Region in northeastern Uganda. They document events during 2013–14 that led to eviction of the Karamojong agropastoralists who had been living on […]