Pastoralism, Policy & Power (page 12)
UN Declaration supports rights of pastoralists
In the South Centre Research Paper 123 “The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas: one step forward in the promotion of human rights for the most vulnerable” (2020, 61pp), Maria Natalia Pacheco Rodriguez and Luis Fernando Rosales Lozada describe the process of developing the Declaration adopted […]
CELEP webinar on “Understanding pastoralism”
On 28 September 2020, CELEP and Misereor teamed up to organise a webinar entitled “Understanding pastoralism and framing the argument for advocacy”. The aim was to discuss how pastoralism is presented in development and research projects and in advocacy and lobbying. The content of the webinar came from the pastoral development orientation framework that Saverio […]
UN Committee on Agriculture approves IYRP
UN Committee on Agriculture approves International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists The initiative for an International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP) has taken a huge step forward. In the online meeting this week of the Committee on Agriculture (COAG) of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Mongolian Government presented its proposal to declare […]
Titling customary tenure: women lose out
The main thrust of the paper “Titling of customary tenure is not a fix for women’s land rights: a review of evidence and practice” (2020, 28pp) by Margaret Rugadya, a Ugandan development economist, is that titling is inept at safeguarding women’s land rights on customary tenure. Intentionally or unintentionally, titling is unable to uphold favourable […]
50 years of research on pastoralism & development
The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in the UK has issued a collection of IDS Bulletin articles that reflects on 50 years of research on pastoralism at IDS. The “end of pastoralism” was proclaimed widely in the 1970s, yet pastoralism has survived as a successful, resilient livelihood adapted to some of the harshest environments on […]