Pastoralism & Extractives (page 6)
Maasai community video for advocacy
Maasai community members in Loliondo, Tanzania, have been trained to make their own videos to help them resist land-grabs by foreign investors. In 1992, a luxury hunting company from the United Arab Emirates occupied 1500 km2 of village land in Loliondo to set up a private game reserve beside the Serengeti National Park. Since then, […]
Tanzania’s Village Land Act 15 years on
In Rural 21 (3/2016), Godfrey Massay of the Tanzania Natural Resource Forum reviews “Tanzania’s Village Land Act 15 years on”. A wave of land reforms became operational in Tanzania in 2001. The goals were ambitious – encouraging land registration and titling, and empowering women and other vulnerable groups – but the results are disillusioning. Implementation […]
Sugar manufacturing hunger among herders in Ethiopia
A report from the Oakland Institute Miracle or mirage? Manufacturing hunger and poverty in Ethiopia (2016, 28pp) reveals how large-scale commercial agricultural development schemes have perpetuated cycles of poverty and food insecurity and have marginalised pastoralists, agropastoralists and fishers. The Ethiopian Government aims to make the country one of the largest sugar producers in the world. […]
CELEP 2016 annual meeting in London, UK
The 2016 annual meeting of the Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP) was held on 5–7 October in IIED headquarters in London, United Kingdom. It was hosted by IIED and organised by Vétérinaires Sans Frontières–Belgium (VSFB). A total of 25 people took part, including European members and Eastern African partners of CELEP. […]
Land grabbing and human rights
The Directorate-General for External Policies of the European Parliament issued a report Land grabbing and human rights (2016, 130pp) on the involvement of European corporate and financial entities in land grabbing outside the European Union. The report refers several times to pastoralists and explicitly mentions them in the introduction: “The same applies to pastoralist communities. […]