Pastoralism, Mobility & Land Tenure (page 22)
Livestock Development Strategy for Africa 2015–35
The “Livestock Development Strategy for Africa (LiDeSA) 2015–2035” (2015, 158pp), published by the African Union Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU–IBAR), seeks to transform the African livestock sector for accelerated and equitable growth. According to observed trends, demand for livestock and livestock products in Africa is expected to increase up to 8-fold by 2050, especially […]
EC InfoPoint: Moving herds, changing paradigms
On 11 October 2016, CELEP organised a lunchtime conference at the External Cooperation InfoPoint of the European Commission (EC) in Brussels to draw attention to the importance of mobile pastoralism. This is increasingly under threat in many African countries because of changes in land use and management, climate change and conflict. At the same time, […]
Local knowledge + spatial technology to understand range ecosystems
Local knowledge and spatial technologies were combined to assess resource changes in the Amboseli ecosystem in southern Kenya. Reduction of grazing land was perceived to be the main change over the last 40 years and was reported to be more pronounced under sedentary and semi-nomadic land uses than in the nomadic pastoral land-use sites. These observed […]
CELEP Update November 2016
The CELEP Update for November 2016 reports on past, ongoing and planned activities of the CELEP Focal Point at VSF–Belgium. This issue brings information about CELEP’s stakeholder meeting on land and pastoralism during the MEP visit to Tanzania, the CELEP annual meeting 2016, the photo exhibition on pastoralism in the European Parliament, the CELEP lunchtime […]
Community-Led Land Use Planning in the Pastoral Areas of Ethiopia
In the new ILC Rangelands Issue Paper – Pastoralists Do Plan! – a set of case studies drawn from some of the pastoral areas of Ethiopia are presented. The study contributed to the development of a local level (woreda) land use planning process that the Rangelands Initiative has been working on with the GoE, together with Oxfam […]