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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 […]
Pathways to resilience in pastoralist areas
Across the Horn of Africa, pastoralist areas have been persistent and difficult challenges for governments and for development and humanitarian agencies. Although often viewed as physically remote, universally poor and subject to droughts and conflicts, these areas can also be economic hubs, with substantial livestock trade networks to local markets and crossing borders to neighbouring […]
Pastoralism under threat by SAGCOT in Tanzania
CELEP member Terra Nuova (Italy) combined forces with the CELEP core group and the campaign Hands on the Land for Food Sovereignty to bring out the policy brief “Pastoralism under threat: human rights violations in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania” (2017, 12pp). This brief addresses the livelihood implications of global trends in agricultural […]