Pastoralism & Natural Resources (page 31)
Trends in collective land ownership, including pastoral
Rural communities are increasingly being recognised by statutory law as collective owners of their lands. The article “Collective land ownership in the 21st century: overview of global trends” (2018, 26pp) by Liz Alden Wily, published in the journal Land 7 (2), 68 (https://doi.org/10.3390/land7020068) examines the status of collective land tenure for communities around the world, […]
Land-use changes threatening pastoralism in East Africa
Pastoralism in Eastern Africa is threatened by various trends in land use: expansion of arable farming, pastures enclosure, nature conservation initiatives, tourism and extraction of natural resources. The CELEP policy brief “Sustainable pastoralism and land-use change in the East African drylands” (2018, 6pp) examines how these changes in land use have a negative impact on […]
Maasai losing the Serengeti
The report “Losing the Serengeti: the Maasai land that was to run forever” (2018, 42pp), issued by The Oakland Institute, exposes the hardships faced by Maasai herders in the Loliondo region of northern Tanzania, where Tanzania Conservation Limited (TLC) has purchased a 96-year lease to over 5000 ha. It looks at the history of land […]
Putting drought in its context in Eastern Africa
The 10-page well-illustrated article “Drought does not work alone” (2017) by Roger Few, University of East Anglia, comes out of the work of the ASSAR (Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions) project. ASSAR uses insights from multiple-scale, interdisciplinary work to improve the understanding of the barriers, enablers and limits to effective, sustained and widespread climate […]
Uganda’s rangeland policy
The paper “Uganda’s rangeland policy: intentions, consequences and opportunities” (2018) by Patrick Byakagaba et al, published in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice 8:7 (https://doi.org/10.1186/s13570-017-0111-3) analyses Uganda’s rangeland policies from pre-colonial times onwards. It looks into what informed these policies, their objectives and the outcomes realised. The policies were based on western European resource management, classical […]