Pastoralism, Mobility & Land Tenure (page 35)
Lake Turkana: East Africa’s “Aral Sea” in the making?
International Rivers has published a study on “The downstream impacts of Ethiopia’s Gibe 3 dam” (2013), now under construction on the Omo River in Southern Ethiopia. It argues that, if the Government of Ethiopia finishes the dam and presses ahead with large-scale irrigation schemes, the hydrological, ecological and socio-economic impacts will generate a region-wide crisis […]
Unfolding pastoralism in Uganda
The Uganda Land Alliance has brought out a special issue of its newsletter (December 2012) entitled “Unfolding Pastoralism”. It includes articles on community-based animal healthcare services, laws related to pastoralism in Uganda, community consultations on the Uganda rangelands policy, securing land rights of the Karamajong and the empowerment of women in pastoralist communities. One article […]
Changes in property rights among the Afar in Ethiopia
In three districts in Afar of northeastern Ethiopia, traditional land-use arrangements among pastoralists, changes in pastoral customary rights and resource-based conflicts among various pastoral groups were studied. The results showed that the state is the biggest actor behind changes in property rights, especially in better-endowed areas. The state-driven changes have led to increasing conflicts between […]
Land tenure issues in the Horn
The Pastoral and Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa (PENHA) held a conference in 1997 on “Pastoral Land Tenure Issues in the Horn of Africa”. The abstracts of presentations on land tenure in Ethiopia generally, Somali and Afar Regions of Ethiopia, in Sahil and Barka Provinces in Eritrea and in Eastern and Western Sudan […]
Pastoralism: a critical asset for food security
Animal Frontiers, a review magazine on animal agriculture, has published a special issue on the contribution of animal production to global food security. One of the articles, “Pastoralism: a critical asset for food security under global climate change”, examines the role that pastoralism plays in relation to food security, particularly in the face of increased […]