Pastoralism & Natural Resources (page 18)
Empowering women through participatory rangeland management
A key objective in piloting Participatory Rangeland Management (PRM) in Kenya and Tanzania was to support empowerment of pastoral women – to improve access to material, human and social resources; to enable women to have greater control over setting goals and taking action to achieve them; and to improve women’s wellbeing and capacity to make […]
UN declared IYRP in 2026 !
On 15 March 2022, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) declared 2026 the International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists (IYRP). This final approval is the culmination of an IYRP movement that grew over several years to become a global coalition of over 300 pastoralist and supporting organisations. CELEP – through its member organisation Agrecol Association […]
Pastoral land alienation in Southern Ethiopia
Because of misconceptions about pastoral production in Ethiopia, policymakers regard pastoral lands as underused and needing ‘development’. Policies have favoured externally imposed development schemes that often expropriate pastoralists in favour of large-scale commercial activities. Resource alienation and curtailment of mobility have made the pastoral systems less resilient. The paper “Putting pastoralists on the policy agenda: […]
Challenges of community-based NRM in rangelands
The paper “The challenges of community-based natural resource management in pastoral rangelands” (2021) by Lance Robinson et al, published in Society & Natural Resources 34(9): 1213–1231, compares five case studies – two from Kenya, two from Ethiopia and one from Tunisia – to identify contextual aspects that affect the implementation of community-based natural resource management […]
Developing legal & policy frameworks for pastoral mobility
Mobility is a vital strategy used by pastoralists to capitalise on the scarce availability of resources in variable environments, making pastoralism economically feasible and environmentally sustainable. Through mobility, pastoralists can produce animal-source foods in the rangelands and also provide various environmental benefits. Most policies have not kept up with new scholarship that acknowledges the importance […]