Pastoralism & Natural Resources (page 75)
Here we go again: famine in Horn of Africa
By: Simon Levine Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute This week, yet again, the spectre of famine in the Horn of Africa has reappeared on our television screens and in our newspapers. Across large parts of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, livestock are dying in huge numbers because they cannot get water and pasture. Ominously, no rains […]
The political economy of land reform in pastoral areas
This paper was presented by Fiona Flintan at the Conference: Future of Pastoralism held between the 21-23 of March 2011 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The paper argues that land reform in pastoral areas must be carried out hand-in-hand with the (re)establishment of good governance; the (re)development of appropriate and just institutions with ‘balanced’ and effective […]
Pastoralists in poverty struggle with commercialisation of livestock
The issue of pastoralist vulnerability in Ethiopia, and how best to respond to it, remains a key development challenge. Different actors have different perspectives, but in more recent development debates, pastoral destitution and poverty are often attributed to conflict, climate change and weak governance. This report uses an alternative entry point to analyze pastoralist vulnerability, […]
A case study on the Karamoja region: the status of land
A study on the status of land under wildlife, forestry and mining concessions in the Karamoja Region, Uganda, has been completed by Trocaire Uganda and Oxfam GB. It aims to factually ground interventions for securing tenure and livelihoods on contemporary and up-to-date information. Findings show that communities are vulnerable to internal and external loss of […]
Why De Soto’s land-tenure ideas of formalized property rights fail to benefit Africa’s poor
by Marcel Rutten, African Studies Centre The World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development noted in 1989 that “land availability was not a major problem in the context of most African countries” (WCARRD 1998: 17). Since then, however, some of the continent’s most serious conflicts (e.g. in Rwanda and Ivory Coast) have been linked to problems related to land availability […]