Pastoralism, Mobility & Land Tenure (page 6)
Mapping herd routes to improve pastoralist livelihoods
Livestock routes are essential to herders in eastern Africa, who use them to access water, feed and markets. But political and economic marginalisation is putting pressure on the natural resources that pastoralists rely on, causing conflicts and loss of value. Mapping current land uses has improved stakeholders’ understanding of how to protect the mobility of […]
Pastoralism in Uganda: a textbook
Pastoralism in Uganda: theory, practice, and policy by CD Waiswa et al (2019, 282pp) is a textbook published by Gulu University, Makerere University, Center for Basic Research, Karamoja Development Forum, IIED (International Institute of Environment & Development) and Tufts University Feinstein International Center. It helps students understand how pastoralism functions as a system; contributes to […]
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 […]