Trends in collective land ownership, including pastoral
Rural communities are increasingly being recognised by statutory law as collective owners of their lands. The article “Collective land ownership in the 21st century: overview of global trends” (2018, 26pp) by Liz Alden Wily, published in the journal Land 7 (2), 68 (https://doi.org/10.3390/land7020068) examines the status of collective land tenure for communities around the world, using a sample of 100 countries. These include several countries in Eastern Africa: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. The research examined the laws in each country, looking at community land, customary tenure and both customary and statutory law. The findings are largely positive and bode well for the evolution of collective property rights for pastoralists, either in discrete areas belonging to a specified community, or in shared areas owned by several communities, or shared rights with crop farmers.
Posted on 11 June 2018 in Pastoralism & Natural Resources, Pastoralism, Policy & Power