Pastoralism, Policy & Power (page 10)
Pastoral civil society across borders of Kenya, Uganda & Ethiopia
A study of civil society in border regions in Eastern Africa “Pastoralist civil societies: cooperative empowerment across boundaries in borderlands of Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia” (2018, 102pp) by Immo Eulenberger et al was published by the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute and the Robert Bosch Foundation. Civil society is generally regarded as constituting formal organisations that are […]
IGC/IRC 2021 papers on pastoralism, gender & policy issues in Eastern Africa
At the combined International Grassland & Rangeland Congress (IGC/IRC) held in Nairobi, Kenya, in October 2021, several papers about work in pastoral areas of Eastern Africa were presented in the session on “Pastoralism, social, gender & policy issues”: Social differentiation in (agro)pastoral climate change adaptation: intersectional perspectives on socio-technical change in Kenya and Burkina Faso, […]
Wildlife management & community resistance in Tanzania
Despite continuing rhetoric on community conservation, trends in Tanzania reflect a process of reconsolidation of state control over wildlife resources and increased rent-seeking behaviour, combined with dispossession of local communities. The 1998 Wildlife Policy promoted community participation and local benefits, but – with the policy of 2007 and the Wildlife Conservation Act of 2009 – […]
Development interventions undermine pastoral livelihoods in Turkana, Kenya
Turkana County has a long history of development interventions yet remains one of the poorest counties in Kenya. In Turkana, livelihoods are increasingly under threat because of climate change, conflict and changing land use. The question addressed in the article “Effects of development interventions on pastoral livelihoods in Turkana County, Kenya” by Gregory Akall, published […]
Sugar estates destroy Bodi pastoralism in Ethiopia
The article “Sugar industrialization and distress selling of livestock among the Bodi pastoralists in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley” by Fana Gebresenbet, published in Pastoralism 11:22 (2021), shows that the Bodi, a small agropastoral community in southern Ethiopia, are experiencing collective impoverishment and are selling their livestock out of distress. This is due to the rapid […]