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Making Rangelands Secure Bulletin 3 (June 2013)
The third issue of “Making Rangelands Secure: news, views and experiences of policymakers, practitioners and communities on making rangelands secure for local users”, reports on the March 2013 symposium in London, UK, on conservation and land grabbing; protecting livestock corridors in Tanzania; Maasai women’s fight for land rights in Loliondo, Tanzania; participatory rangeland management in […]
Pastoral adaptation to climate change: Ethiopians learn in Mali
Ethiopians from five partner organisations in the Drylands Coordination Group (DCG) visited Mali in 2011 to learn about good practices in pastoral adaptation to the effects of climate change. The hosts were DCG Mali and the Malian Arid Lands Development Organisation (MALDO). In Nioro du Sahel and Nara in northern Mali, they learned how the […]
Counting on uncertainty in North-East Kenya
In a semi-arid part of Kenya, the new economics foundation (nef) and CARE International explored whether the benefits created by projects investing in climate-change adaptation outweigh their implementation and opportunity costs. Adaptation interventions pushed by multilateral donors often focus on so-called “hard” adaptation measures at macro scale, such as infrastructural investment. The study “Counting on […]
Securing community land rights in northern Tanzania
Two pioneering grassroots organisations in northern Tanzania, the Pastoral Women’s Council (PWC) and the Ujamaa Community Resource Team (UCRT), examine and present their experiences and insights from their long-term work to secure the land rights of hunter-gatherer and pastoral communities. In the publication “Securing community land rights: experiences and insights from working to secure hunter-gatherer […]
Pastoral livelihoods and wildlife revenues in East Africa
The East African drylands are home to both pastoralists and wildlife, attracting substantial conservation and tourism revenues, yet the pastoralists remain poor and the wildlife is declining. Donor interventions seek “win-win” solutions through conservation with development. The article “Pastoralist livelihoods and wildlife revenues in East Africa: a case for coexistence?” in a special issue of […]