Pastoralism, Mobility & Land Tenure (page 17)
Mobile pastoralists & livestock markets in Karamoja
A short article by Loupa Pius from the CELEP partner organisation Dodoth Agropastoralist Development Organization (DADO) was published in the GFAR (Global Forum for Agricultural Research and Innovation) Impakter series in March 2019. Entitled “Mobile pastoralists: the challenge of livestock markets in Karamoja, Uganda”, it explores livestock markets and the use of herd mobility to […]
Tanzanian pastoralists risk dispossession through geospatial surveys
The article “Resisting legibility: state and conservation boundaries, pastoralism, and the risk of dispossession through geospatial surveys in Tanzania” by J. Bluwstein, published in Rural Landscapes: Society, Environment, History, 6(1), illustrates how the use of modern geospatial surveying technology in Tanzania failed to resolve a boundary conflict between the state and nature conservation authorities on […]
Herding through uncertainties – interfaces between pastoralists & uncertainty
Herding through uncertainties – principles and practices: exploring the interfaces of pastoralists and uncertainty (2019, 51pp), by Michele Nori of the European University Institute, is a literature review for the European Research Council-funded PASTRES (Pastoralism, Uncertainty, Resilience: Global Lessons from the Margins) project. The paper argues that lessons from pastoralists may help people working in […]
Misereor’s pastoral development orientation framework: focus on Ethiopia
On Tuesday 24 September 2019, at the Social and Development Coordination Annual Meeting of the Ethiopian Catholic Church , MISEREOR — the development agency of the German Catholic Bishops’ Conference — presented its Pastoral Development Orientation Framework for working with small-scale producers in pastoral systems in Ethiopia. It was a joint launch with the Ethiopian Catholic […]
Karamojong: “Pastoralism is our future”
The Karamoja Development Forum (KDF), a CELEP partner organisation based in Uganda, has issued a statement to the Ugandan Government in defence of the pastoralists’ rights to mobility. The statement “For Karamojong: Pastoralism is our future, not our past” was published in the newspaper New Vision on 27 May 2019. It was in response to […]