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Making Rangelands Secure Bulletin 6 (Aug 2015)
The sixth issue of “Making Rangelands Secure: news, views and experiences of policymakers, practitioners and communities on making rangelands secure for local users” (12pp) reports on pastoral land rights and governance, land-use planning by the Mursi in southern Ethiopia, the progress of the Community Land Bill in Kenya, the continuing conflicts in Loliondo in Tanzania, […]
Pastoral raiding and violent conflict in NW Kenya
Various pastoral communities in the Horn of Africa have traditionally used raiding as a way of restocking herds, especially after droughts or disease outbreaks. In recent years, however, livestock raiding has become more frequent, violent and destructive. In the paper “Raiding pastoral livelihoods: motives and effects of violent conflict in north-western Kenya” (Pastoralism: Research, Policy […]
Environmental threats and human rights in Turkana, Kenya
Climate change and development projects are threatening the health and livelihood of pastoralists and other local people in the Turkana Region of northwest Kenya, according to a Human Rights Watch report released in October 2015. The report and accompanying video were presented to environmental and human rights groups in Nairobi prior to climate change negotiations […]
Mobile pastoral livelihoods and access to resources
The working paper Mobile livelihoods, patchy resources and shifting rights: approaching pastoral territories (2007, 24pp) of the International Land Coalition (IC) analyses the rationale behind livestock mobility in pastoral systems and the related rights of access to and control over natural resources. It looks at the role of the government and its interaction with pastoralist civil-society […]
Inclusive green growth in the Kenyan drylands
Green growth promises to provide the economic incentives that resource-dependent dryland communities need to achieve sustainable inclusive economic development. Kenya’s current devolution process provides an opportunity for green economic planning in the arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) to be informed by local people’s perspectives on needs, priorities, resource conditions and trends, but aligning the necessary […]