Pastoralist Livelihoods & Nutrition (page 52)
FIgures on livestock in the African drylands
Quantitative information on the importance of livestock systems in African drylands is scarce. A new study by Tim Robinson, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), and Giulia Conchedda, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), helps to redress this. The study’s focus countries are Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda […]
Making Rangelands Secure Bulletin 5 (May 2014)
Joint village land use planning in Tanzania provides an opportunity for neighbouring villages to formalise previously customary arrangements for sharing of resources and livestock mobility across village boundaries. In Tanzania, the Village Land Act 1999 and the Land Use Planning Act 2007 state that villages should agree on their boundaries, register and certify them with […]
Making Rangelands Secure Bulletin 4 (Oct 2013)
The Making Rangelands Secure Bulletin 4 (October 2013) reports on the external review of the learning initiative Making Rangelands Secure, which has been renamed the Rangelands Governance Initiative. It focuses on Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. The bulletin includes papers on Uganda’s new National Land Policy, securing land titles for pastoralist women and resolution […]
Land grabbing in Africa: what is it all about?
Land is central to the livelihoods, culture and identity for millions of people across the developing world. But there is growing concern that people’s connection to their land is being undermined. Over the past few years, large-scale acquisitions of farmland in Africa have made headlines in media reports across the world. Lands that only a […]
Pastoral responses to crisis in the Horn
A working paper of the Future Agricultures Consortium “Into the fold: what pastoral responses to crisis tell us about the future of pastoralism in the Horn” (2014, 20pp) by Jeremy Lind and Lina Ribera Barrero looks at how pastoral livelihoods are likely to evolve in the Horn of Africa as the area becomes increasingly incorporated […]