Pastoralism & Natural Resources (page 3)
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 […]
Drought frequency, conservancies & pastoralist wellbeing in Kenya
Portions of group ranches in northern Kenya communally held by pastoralists were removed from grazing to support wildlife and encourage tourism. These community-based conservancies (CBCs) were designed to benefit CBC members through regular payments, possible wages, improved security, etc. For the article “Drought frequency, conservancies, and pastoral household well-being” published in Ecology and Society 29(1):27 […]
Large-scale irrigation can destroy Kenya’s pastoralism
There is much talk about investing in irrigation in Kenya’s drylands, with the idea of greening the “desert”, boosting food production and creating new livelihoods. In the article “Why irrigation needs to think smaller to save Kenyan pastoralism” published in The New Humanitarian (28 February 2024), Ian Scoones and Hussein Wario caution that large-scale irrigation […]
MISA condemns UNESCO mission to Ngorongoro, Tanzania
On 3–9 February 2024, a UNESCO mission investigated allegations of human rights violations against Maasai pastoralists in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA), a World Heritage Site in northern Tanzania. The Tanzanian civil society and international organisations in MISA (Maasai International Solidarity Alliance), which includes CELEP, expressed serious concerns that the mission was not publicly announced […]
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 […]