This activity focuses on urban planning in pastoral areas.

It consists of:

• applying ‘urban planning land use economics, that takes the life-style and livelihood of the people into account’ when creating new towns;
• prescribing that ‘all towns shall allocate land for roads and related infrastructure, for house building, for parks and green areas, gardening, natural resource development areas, mining, and sporting activities.

COMMENTARY

Not on the basis of pastoralist systems. The description of this implementation activity emphasizes that urban planning in pastoral areas should take ‘the lifestyle and livelihood of the people into account’. Towns are supposed to be built to finally allow ‘pastoralists [to] benefit from urban development and industry linkages’ (p.60). In this light, the ‘people’ whose lifestyle and livelihood are to be taken into account when building towns in pastoral areas are the people in pastoral systems. It seems thus striking that planning prescriptions refer to gardening, natural resource development, and even mining, but make no mention of livestock corridors, dedicated grazing areas, abattoirs, milk-collection centers, livestock markets, or indeed anything at all related to animal husbandry. This is a gap to be filled at regional level.

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