Pastoralism, Mobility & Land Tenure (page 1)
Pastoral grazing in Tanzania’s Village Forest Reserves
The relations between pastoralism and forestry have long been antagonistic in the eyes of foresters and environmental planners. The paper “Pastoral grazing in Tanzania’s Village Forest Reserves: unearthing extra-ecological motives for (in-)compatibility” by Benezet Rwelengera and Jumanne Abdallah (published 2024 in the Journal of the Geographical Association of Tanzania 44(2): 53–75) examines what shapes the […]
IYRP Policy brief on pastoralists’ land rights
Consistently with the CELEP’s understanding of pastoralism, this IYRP policy brief on Securing Land Rights for Pastoralism calls for seven priority actions to meet the challenges facing pastoralists’ use of rangelands — a global perspective also highly relevant to pastoralists in East Africa: Guarantee in the law pastoralists’ right of access to land for their […]
Pastoralism & protected areas
The Global Alliance for the International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists (IYRP) – specifically, the IYRP Working Group on Ranglands & Biodiversity – prepared a position paper “Pastoralism and protected areas” for the 16th Conference of Parties of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP16) in December 2024 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Specific […]
CELEP’s understanding of pastoralism
In 2020–21, initially the CELEP core group and then other CELEP members and partners engaged in intensive discussion to come to a common understanding of pastoralism. This discussion was based on the pastoral development orientation framework that Saverio Krätli developed for MISEREOR. In the 3-pager entitled “Pastoralists turn variability into food”, CELEP’s understanding of pastoralism […]
Community conservancies impact herders’ adaptation to climate change
The establishment of numerous community-based conservancies in northern Kenya has brought about radical changes in the use of, access to and ownership of land. Research outlined in the policy brief “The impact of community-based conservation on pastoralists’ climate change adaptation” (2023, 4pp) by Jackson Wachira et al, revealed that community-based conservation aggravated pastoralists’ vulnerability to […]