Pastoralist Livelihoods & Nutrition (page 45)
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 […]
Changing gender roles in diversified agropastoralism in West Pokot, Kenya
Earlier studies in drylands have shown that, while gender roles are becoming more flexible, privatisation and formalisation of land tenure tends to marginalise women, while environmental degradation leads to gender-differentiated changes in workload. Chepareria, a ward in West Pokot County, has undergone such tenure and environmental changes and is now dominated by private rangeland enclosures. […]
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 […]