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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 […]
Tanzania’s policy for Wildlife Management Areas revisited
Almost two decades after Tanzania’s policy on Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) – now called Community Wildlife Management Areas (CWMAs) – was adopted, the policy brief “Realising the promise of Tanzania’s Wildlife Management Areas” (2017, 4pp) revisits the aims and examines the achievements. CWMAs were meant to increase participation of local (agropastoralist) communities in managing wildlife […]
Kenya’s Community Land Act: threat & potential for pastoralists
Kenya’s 2010 Constitution classified community land alongside public and private land as having equal status and protection. However, the Ministry of Lands, National Land Commission and county governments have no coherent strategy to roll out the Community Land Act. Development actors focus only on land registration, which can cause conflict and undermine efforts to protect […]