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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 […]
Opportunities and challenges of Kenya’s Community Land Act
In 2016, Kenya acknowledged customary tenure as producing lawful property rights, not merely rights of occupation and use on government or public lands. The 25-page article “The Community Land Act in Kenya: opportunity and challenges for communities” (2018) by Liz Alden Wily, published in the journal Land 7, 12 (doi:10.3390/land7010012), looks into this new legal […]
Bush encroachment in Borana rangelands of southern Ethiopia
Analysing changes in land use gives insight into impacts on ecosystem functioning. The paper “Conversion of savanna rangelands to bush dominated landscape in Borana, southern Ethiopia” (2016) by Teshome Abate and Ayana Angassa, published in Ecological processes 5:6 (DOI 10.1186/s13717-016-0049-1), evaluates changes in land use and vegetation cover between 1987 and 2003 in the Yabelo […]
Innovative ways to reduce farmer-herder conflicts
Procasur Corporation*, IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development), ILC (International Land Coalition), ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), the Land Portal Foundation and RECONCILE (Resource Conflict Institute) co-organised a week-long Learning Route (LR) in September 2017 about reducing conflicts between crop farmers and livestock keepers. The Value Chain Development Project (VCDP) in Nigeria had requested to […]