Pastoralism, Mobility & Land Tenure (page 3)
Maasai in Tanzania displaced for nature conservation
In December 2023 – the same month as Maasai lawyer Joseph Oleshangay received the Human Rights Prize from the City of Weimar, Germany (see news item) – the Germany-based Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker (Society for Threatened Peoples) issued a 50-page report in German on “Die Maasai in Tansania: gewaltsam vertrieben für den Naturschutz” (The Maasai […]
Maasai lawyer Joseph Oleshangay awarded Weimar Human Rights Prize
On 10 December 2023 – Human Rights Day – the Maasai lawyer Joseph Moses Oleshangay was awarded the Weimar Human Rights Prize at a ceremony in Weimar, Germany. He was part of the Maasai delegation that made an advocacy tour in Europe in May–June 2023 (see Maasai advocacy tour in Europe generates solidarity). Oleshangay has […]
Participatory rangeland management for women’s empowerment in Ethiopia
Participatory rangeland management (PRM) was piloted by NGOs in Ethiopia from 2010 onwards in a bid to improve the security of tenure and good governance of rangelands, to allow more inclusive participation of pastoralists in land-related decisions and to improve rangeland productivity. As part of the participatory process, it also sought women’s empowerment. The article […]
Formalising pastoral land tenure in Eastern Africa
Legal frameworks for communal land rights in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania are now gaining momentum. Questions can be raised as to whether, how and to what extent these frameworks take into account the complexities of pastoral resources. In the paper “Can formalisation of pastoral land tenure overcome its paradoxes? Reflections from East Africa” (published in […]
Maasai delegation lobbying in Europe for their rights
In May-June 2023, a delegation of Maasai representatives is visiting several European countries, seeking international support to halt the ongoing forced evictions and human rights abuses against the Maasai pastoralists in Loliondo and Ngorongoro in northern Tanzania. See the press release in English, French and German. In Germany, the Maasai spoke with representatives from the […]