Pastoralism & Extractives (page 7)
Sugar manufacturing hunger among herders in Ethiopia
A report from the Oakland Institute Miracle or mirage? Manufacturing hunger and poverty in Ethiopia (2016, 28pp) reveals how large-scale commercial agricultural development schemes have perpetuated cycles of poverty and food insecurity and have marginalised pastoralists, agropastoralists and fishers. The Ethiopian Government aims to make the country one of the largest sugar producers in the world. […]
CELEP 2016 annual meeting in London, UK
The 2016 annual meeting of the Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP) was held on 5–7 October in IIED headquarters in London, United Kingdom. It was hosted by IIED and organised by Vétérinaires Sans Frontières–Belgium (VSFB). A total of 25 people took part, including European members and Eastern African partners of CELEP. […]
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 […]