Pastoralism, Mobility & Land Tenure (page 4)
Managing Africa’s transboundary climate risks, with pastoralism cases
Transboundary climate risks can set back economic development gains, jeopardise trade and food security and impact infrastructure investments. The policy brief “How can Africa manage the transboundary climate risks it faces?” by Sarah Optiz-Stapleton et al (2023, 11pp), published by SPARC (Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises), highlights five significant transboundary climate […]
With camelids into a sustainable future
For the International Year of Camelids 2024, Misereor, DITSL (German Institute for Tropical & Subtropical Agriculture) and LPP (League for Pastoral Peoples) in Germany have brought out a dossier on pastoral camelid husbandry around the world: “With camelids into a sustainable future: learning from pastoralist communities” (2024, 20pp), published by welt-sichten, Frankfurt. It describes the […]
Donor funding weakened Barabaig land-rights movement in Tanzania
From the 1960s to the 1990s, Barabaig pastoralists in Hanang District of Arusha Region, Tanzania, sustained a vibrant grassroots social movement that agitated to reclaim the grazing land from which they had been removed under Tanzania’s post-independence nationalisation programme. This land had been taken over for development of parastatal wheat farms. However, by the year […]
Pastoralist research on the Uganda–Kenya border
The report “One step forward two steps back, pastoralist researchers on the Uganda-Kenya border” (2023, 28pp, doi: 10.19088/IDS.2023.046) is a history of events affecting peace and security between October 2022 and May 2023. It is a diary of community research into borderland insecurity that gave community leaders evidence on why pastoralists continue to carry guns […]
Community solutions to insecurity on Uganda–Kenya border
In the Karamoja and Turkana borderlands of Uganda and Kenya, there is widespread violence including armed robbery, rape and human rights abuses. The 4-page Policy Briefing “Community solutions to insecurity along the Uganda–Kenya border” (2023) highlights how different insecurities reinforce each other in ways aggravated by the international border. It stresses the need for fulfilment […]