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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 […]
Trends in collective land ownership, including pastoral
Rural communities are increasingly being recognised by statutory law as collective owners of their lands. The article “Collective land ownership in the 21st century: overview of global trends” (2018, 26pp) by Liz Alden Wily, published in the journal Land 7 (2), 68 (https://doi.org/10.3390/land7020068) examines the status of collective land tenure for communities around the world, […]
Maasai losing the Serengeti
The report “Losing the Serengeti: the Maasai land that was to run forever” (2018, 42pp), issued by The Oakland Institute, exposes the hardships faced by Maasai herders in the Loliondo region of northern Tanzania, where Tanzania Conservation Limited (TLC) has purchased a 96-year lease to over 5000 ha. It looks at the history of land […]
Pastoral policies in Ethiopia 1991–2008
The report “Retrospective assessment of pastoral policies in Ethiopia, 1991–2008” (2010, 30pp) by Peter Little et al was the first report in a series of four papers on pastoral economic growth and development in Ethiopia that was commissioned by the Department for International Development (DfID) at the request of the Government of Ethiopia. This report […]
Uganda’s rangeland policy
The paper “Uganda’s rangeland policy: intentions, consequences and opportunities” (2018) by Patrick Byakagaba et al, published in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice 8:7 (https://doi.org/10.1186/s13570-017-0111-3) analyses Uganda’s rangeland policies from pre-colonial times onwards. It looks into what informed these policies, their objectives and the outcomes realised. The policies were based on western European resource management, classical […]