Pastoralism, Policy & Power (page 30)
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 […]
Visit of Members of European Parliament to Kenya
CELEP was involved in organising a mission of four members of the European Parliament to Kenya on 9–11 February 2016. This was an official mission of the Development Committee (DEVE), which put the focus on Water, Food Security, Education, Governance, Peace and Conflict resolution. The members of the delegation were: Linda McAvan, DEVE Chair; Enrico […]
Three handbooks on participatory rangeland management
Garba Tula District in Isiolo County, northern Kenya, is home to about 40,000 pastoralists, mainly Borana. Most of the land is held in trust by the country councils, who strictly control allocation. Decisions on land use and management were taken out of the hands of the communities’ traditional authorities. The dryland programme of the IUCN […]
Harnessing pastoral knowledge for climate-change adaptation
The paper “Harnessing pastoral knowledge for climate change adaptation in the drylands” presents experience from northern Tanzania and Kenya using a mapping system based on Geographic Information System (GIS) that enables pastoralist communities to demonstrate, in a ‘language’ understood by policymakers and planners, the logic behind the communities’ livelihood strategies. The paper (37pp) was presented […]