Pastoralism, Policy & Power (page 28)
Securing pastoralists’ land-tenure rights
As part of a project to promote sustainable pastoralism, supported by IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development), Véterinaires Sans Frontières (VSF) made a survey of enabling policies and pastoralist practices in several areas of the world, including the Horn of Africa. One output of this study is the article “Securing pastoralists’ land tenure rights” (2016, […]
Improving governance of pastoral lands
In 2012, the Committee on World Food Security endorsed the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT). FAO, in collaboration with IUCN, issued a technical guide Improving governance of pastoral lands (2016, 140pp) to provide advice and examples of how to […]
Evaluating policy effects on pastoral development in Ethiopia
The article “Unsustain the sustainable: an evaluation of the legal and policy interventions for pastoral development in Ethiopia” published in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice (2016 6:2 DOI: 10.1186/s13570-016-0049-x) is a critical appraisal of interventions under the Imperial, Derg and Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) governments. Based on an extensive review of pastoral policies, […]
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. […]
Collective land access by pastoralists in Kenya
The study “Collective land access regimes in pastoralist societies: lessons from East African countries” (2016, 49pp), published by the Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development at Egerton University, examines the evolution of collective land tenure regimes in Kenya, including how they affect the local pastoral communities. Most land held under collective tenure in East […]