Pastoralist Livelihoods & Nutrition (page 49)
Conservation and land grabbing in African & Asian rangelands
In March 2013, people from conservation NGOs, development organisations and human rights groups met to explore interactions between conservation, large-scale land acquisition and community land rights. The meeting was organised by the International Institute of Environment and Development (IIED)’s Poverty and Conservation Learning Group, the International Land Coalition (ILC), the Zoological Society of London and […]
Violence against pastoralists in southeastern Tanzania
The CELEP member organisation IWGIA (International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs) has published a 6-page Briefing Note “Ethnic violence in Morogoro Region in Tanzania” (March 2015) about human rights violations committed towards Maasai and Datoga pastoralists in the Morogoro Region in southeastern Tanzania. The note includes an analysis of the situation and recommendations to the […]
Kenyan pastoralists’ views on Rift Valley Fever
As part of the research programme on Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa, the STEPS (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) Centre has brought out a report on “Rift Valley fever in Kenya: policies to prepare and respond” as Political Economy of Knowledge and Policy Working Paper 82 (March 2015, 39pp). Rift Valley fever […]
Making the most of Prosopis in the Horn of Africa
In November 2014 a regional conference was held in Addis Ababa entitled “Exploring Prosopis Management and Policy Options in the Horn of Africa”. It was organised by CELEP member PENHA (Pastoral & Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa) in partnership with IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) and the Ethiopian Agropastoralist Development Association at […]
Karamojong evicted after land acquisition in Uganda
Members of the Karamoja Development Forum compiled a 30-page report “Take anything, leave our land” (2015) on two cases of land acquisition by state agencies in Nakapiripirit and Napak Districts of the Karamoja Region in northeastern Uganda. They document events during 2013–14 that led to eviction of the Karamojong agropastoralists who had been living on […]