Pastoralism & Natural Resources (page 29)
Securing communal land rights in Karamoja
The report “Policy and legal framework for securing communal land rights in Karamoja: challenges, opportunities and entry points for interventions” (2018, 28pp) presents the findings of a land governance study commissioned by the BRACED (Building Resilience to Climate Extremes and Disasters) project in the Karamoja region of Uganda. The aim of the study was to […]
PASTRES: Pastoralism under pressure in northern Kenya
In the blog “Pastoralism under pressure in northern Kenya” (November 2018), Ian Scoones reports on a scoping visit by the research team from PASTRES (Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Resilience) to Isiolo Country in northern Kenya, the home of Waso Boran pastoralists. The team explored climatic, market, institutional and policies uncertainties, including implications of the LAPSSET (Lamu […]
Making charcoal to control spread of Prosopis in Kenya
In a Web-based article “Kenyan charcoal businesses trying to nip invasive tree in the bud“ (October 2018) published in Mongabay, Rosalia Omungo describes how the invasive woody species Prosopis juliflora, known in Kenya as mathenge, was introduced to Kenya to restore degraded drylands but has quickly spread in the drylands. Residents in the Turkana area […]
NRM by pastoralists in northern Kenya
The Web article “Shalom empowers Turkana and Pokot communities on management and resolution of natural resource-based conflicts” introduces the Natural Resource Management (NRM) Project being implemented in Turkana and West Pokot Counties in northern Kenya, an area long marked by inter-ethnic conflict caused mainly by competition over access to and control of water, pasture and land. With the […]
Oil and tenure governance in Kenya’s drylands
The case study “Triggering the Food and Agriculture Organization’s Responsible Governance of Tenure in the context of oil extraction in Kenya’s Turkana County” presents the case of the appropriation of pastoral lands by the coming of large-scale oil extractive industry in Turkana, northern Kenya. This case study is meant to inform and raise awareness among local […]