Pastoralism & Extractives (page 7)
People in the way of progress: Lake Turkana Wind Power
Lake Turkana Wind Power is the largest private investment in Kenya, funded by Danish and international companies and investors, who now await a court decision on whether the land for the project was legally acquired. The 40-page report issued by DanWatch “A people in the way of progress” (2016) came out of the first of […]
Wind project on Lake Turkana
The article “Wind brengt welvaart, maar niet zonder slag of sloot” (Wind brings prosperity, but not without a battle) on the Lake Turkana Wind Project in northern Kenya was published in the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant on 11 July 2015. CELEP offers here an unofficial English translation of the article, because so little information is available in English […]
Turkana aquifer and pastoralist development
The Drylands Learning and Capacity Building Initiative DLC (formerly the Regional Learning and Advocacy Programme REGLAP) has issued a discussion brief about development perspectives in view of the discovery of the huge Lotokipi aquifer in Turkana in northern Kenya. The brief, entitled “The Turkana aquifer discoveries and development proposals” (2014, 9pp), highlights the key findings […]
Karamojong evicted after land acquisition in Uganda
Members of the Karamoja Development Forum compiled a 30-page report “Take anything, leave our land” (2015) on two cases of land acquisition by state agencies in Nakapiripirit and Napak Districts of the Karamoja Region in northeastern Uganda. They document events during 2013–14 that led to eviction of the Karamojong agropastoralists who had been living on […]
Disaster risk reduction in the drylands of the Horn
This is the fourth and final issue of the REGLAP annual journal Disaster risk reduction in the drylands of the Horn of Africa on innovations in policy and practice from the ECHO Drought Risk Reduction Action Plan partners and beyond. It includes articles on: Kenya–Ethiopia crossborder mobility; natural resource governance in Garbatulla, Kenya; community conflict […]