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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 […]
Kenyan pastoralists losing out on Equalization Fund
The Equalization Fund was set up by the Government of Kenya (GoK) to address the marginalisation and low level of infrastructure in the North. It provides for annual appropriation of 0.5% of all revenue collected by the GoK to use in improving basic services such as water, roads, health facilities and electricity for communities in […]
Opportunities and challenges of Kenya’s Community Land Act
In 2016, Kenya acknowledged customary tenure as producing lawful property rights, not merely rights of occupation and use on government or public lands. The 25-page article “The Community Land Act in Kenya: opportunity and challenges for communities” (2018) by Liz Alden Wily, published in the journal Land 7, 12 (doi:10.3390/land7010012), looks into this new legal […]