Pastoralism & Natural Resources (page 36)
Land tenure & sustainable pastoralism in East Africa & the Andes
The ELLA (Evidence and Lessons from Latin America) Research Paper “Land tenure and the sustainability of pastoral productive systems: a comparative institutional analysis of the Andean altiplano and the East African savannah” (2017, 32pp) by Gerardo Damonte et al analyses the relationship between pastoral land-tenure systems and the sustainability of pastoralism as a production system […]
Helping Tanzanian pastoralists & hunter-gatherers secure land
A case study in the International Land Alliance (ILC) database of good practices is presented by UCRT (Ujamaa Community Support Team), a partner organisation of CELEP. The study “Supporting communities of pastoralists and hunter-gatherers to secure land and sustainably manage resources” (2017, 10pp) by Edward Loure (UCRT) and Amira Kheir (ILC) describes UCRT’s work with […]
Pastoralist commons management in Karamoja, Uganda
The article “Changes in pastoralist commons management and their implications in Karamoja (Uganda)” by Zuzana Filipová and Nadia Johanisova, published in the Journal of Political Ecology 24: 881–900 (2017), analyses the shift from traditional to current pastoral practices and diversification of livelihoods of the Jie group of the Karimojong in Kotido District, Uganda. Focusing on […]
Trade-offs between pastoralism & wildlife conservation in Kenya
Some pastoralists in the East African rangelands diversify into wildlife conservation and tourism in order to supplement livestock-based livelihoods and to spread risk. Tourism can be an alternative source of income during drought, but may reduce access to grazing resources, and wildlife may destroy crops and injure, kill or transmit disease to livestock or people. […]
Pastoralist women’s land rights in Tanzania
At the XVI Biennial IASC (International Association for the Study of the Commons) Conference (https://www.iasc2017.org/) in July 2017 in Utrecht, Netherlands “Practicing the commons: self-governance, cooperation and institutional change”, Naseku Kisambu presented a paper from the International Land Coalition (ILC) Rangelands Initiative on “Pastoral women’s land rights and village land use planning in Tanzania” (2017, […]