Pastoralism & Natural Resources (page 24)
Alternative scales for formalising communal land tenure by Borana in Ethiopia
A research team from ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), LARMAT (Dept of Land Resources Management and Agricultural Technology, University of Nairobi) and the Yabelo Pastoral & Dryland Agricultural Research Institute published the paper “An assessment of the implications of alternative scales of communal land tenure formalization in pastoral systems” in Land Use Policy 94 (2020) […]
Green economy & degradation narratives cause land conflict in Tanzania
The Tanzanian Government, investors and aid donors have presented the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) as a model for the “green economy” in Africa, combining investments in large-scale farming with environmental conservation. In the Kilombero Valley, some small-scale farmers have been dispossessed through the expansion of capital investments in large-scale capital-intensive farming; others […]
Holistic Rangeland Management in northern Tanzania
The 8-page pamphlet “Holistic Rangeland Management in two communities in northern Tanzania” brought out in 2019 by the Mara Training Centre in Narok, Kenya, describes the approach of Holistic Rangeland Management (HRM). It summarises the key implementation steps, the institutional and governance aspects of the approach and the major biophysical interventions for promoting and monitoring […]
Piloting Participatory Rangeland Management in Kenya
Since 2018, the CELEP partner organisation RECONCILE (Resource Conflict Institute) is collaborating with pastoralist communities and the County Government in Baringo and with technical partners in ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), ILC (International Land Coalition) and VSFB (Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Belgium, focal point of CELEP) in piloting the Participatory Rangeland Management (PRM) approach in Kenya. […]
Wildlife conservation from within Kenyan pastoralist communities
Islands of protected areas cannot secure all the space needed to sustain biodiversity and ecosystem function at a global scale and in the face of climate change. Conserving biodiversity on a landscape scale depends on finding adequate space and a meaningful place in the lives of land users. In the article “Conservation from the inside-out: […]