Pastoralism & Natural Resources (page 43)
Controlling prosopis through use in Somaliland
CELEP member PENHA (Pastoral and Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa) held a workshop on the control and use of Prosopis juliflora on May 2016 in Hargeisa, Somaliland. Prosopis is an invasive woody species that has been destroying pasture throughout large parts of Eastern Africa and the Horn. The workshop focused on how pastoralists […]
Tanzania pastoralists threatened by evictions
The report “Tanzania pastoralists threatened: eviction, human rights violations and loss of livelihood” (2016, 92pp), brought out by the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA), explores evictions of pastoralists and other conflicts over pastoralists’ land in Tanzania, mainly within the past decade. The IWGIA study involved gathering the available information and visiting affected pastoralist […]
Land grabbing and human rights
The Directorate-General for External Policies of the European Parliament issued a report Land grabbing and human rights (2016, 130pp) on the involvement of European corporate and financial entities in land grabbing outside the European Union. The report refers several times to pastoralists and explicitly mentions them in the introduction: “The same applies to pastoralist communities. […]
Government-driven development and pastoralism in the Horn
The Institute for Peace and Security Studies at Addis Ababa University Ethiopia, produced a 444-page book entitled The intricate road to development: government development strategies in the pastoral areas of the Horn of Africa (2015). It contains 13 chapters by Eastern African authors about pastoralism as a livelihood strategy and a system of mobile livestock […]
Rangeland resource conflict in northern Kenya & southern Ethiopia
Household-level surveys revealed that conflict over land and water among pastoralists in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia is relatively rare, according to the study Resource conflict in the rangeland: evidence from northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia (Research Brief 04-08-PARIMA 2004, 4pp) by PARIMA (Pastoral Risk Management). Resource conflict in this region appears to be associated […]