Pastoralism, Policy & Power (page 29)
AUC workshop on pastoralist organisations & networks
On 29 June – 1 July 2016, a workshop was convened in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso by the African Union Commission (AUC) on policy dialogue and strengthening the capacity of pastoralist networks and organisations. Participants included people from organisations throughout Africa that are working with pastoralists. A summary report of the proceedings, including the communiqué on […]
Pastoralists’ session in FAO/IFAD Farmers’ Forum
Immediately before the FAO/IFAD Farmers’ Forum on in mid-February 2016, CELEP partners took part in a special session with pastoralists and other extensive livestock breeders. Benjamin Mutambukah (Uganda) provided a Summary Report on the event. The Special Session was co-organised by IFAD and VSF International at IFAD Headquarters in Rome and involved 18 representatives from […]
Tanzania pastoralists threatened by evictions
The report “Tanzania pastoralists threatened: eviction, human rights violations and loss of livelihood” (2016, 92pp), brought out by the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA), explores evictions of pastoralists and other conflicts over pastoralists’ land in Tanzania, mainly within the past decade. The IWGIA study involved gathering the available information and visiting affected pastoralist […]
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. […]
Government-driven development and pastoralism in the Horn
The Institute for Peace and Security Studies at Addis Ababa University Ethiopia, produced a 444-page book entitled The intricate road to development: government development strategies in the pastoral areas of the Horn of Africa (2015). It contains 13 chapters by Eastern African authors about pastoralism as a livelihood strategy and a system of mobile livestock […]