IYRP Policy brief on pastoralists’ land rights

Consistently with the CELEP’s understanding of pastoralism, this IYRP policy brief on Securing Land Rights for Pastoralism calls for seven priority actions to meet the challenges facing pastoralists’ use of rangelands — a global perspective also highly relevant to pastoralists in East Africa:

1. Guarantee in the law pastoralists’ right of access to land for their livelihoods.
2. Protect mobility as a right fundamental to the livelihood of pastoralists.
3. Expand legal frameworks to represent the full spectrum of pastoralists’ land rights.
4. Identify, acknowledge, and register pastoralists’ customary land rights that have been overlooked in the formalization of land tenure
5. Recognise pastoralism as a form of land development.
6. Stop the conversion of pastoralist land to other uses that exclude pastoralism.
7. Involve pastoralist communities in all processes in which they are stakeholders.

Securing Land Rights for Pastoralism is also available in the following languages:

FRENCH – Note de politique — Sécuriser les droits fonciers pour le pastoralisme 

PORTUGUESE – Nota política — Garantir os Direitos Fundiários para o Pastoralismo

تضمین حقوق زمین برای شبانکارگان — FARSI

Posted on 14 January 2025 in CELEP Documents, Pastoralism, Mobility & Land Tenure, Pastoralism, Policy & Power