Pastoralism, Mobility & Land Tenure (page 28)
Mobile herders and legislation in East & West Africa
As part of the IIED project Securing Pastoralism in East and West Africa: Protecting and Promoting Livestock Mobility, a desk review was made “Review of the legislative and institutional environment governing livestock mobility in East and West Africa” (2008, 58pp). This summarises the legislative and institutional environment governing livestock mobility in East and West Africa […]
Resilience and pastoralism in Africa
In the IFPRI book Resilience for food and nutrition security (2014), the chapter on Resilience and pastoralism in Africa south of the Sahara (8pp) by Peter Little and John McPeak takes a closer look at the concept of resilience and its application in the specific context of pastoral production systems. It gives an overview of […]
Importance of livestock routes in Ethiopia
In September 2015, an international meeting on the “Importance of livestock routes for local, national and regional development” was organised by the Rangeland Management Platform – a forum coordinated by the Pastoral Livestock Development Directorate in the Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture and the Ethiopian Society of Animal Production (ESAP). The participants concluded that livestock routes […]
Making Rangelands Secure Bulletin 6 (Aug 2015)
The sixth issue of “Making Rangelands Secure: news, views and experiences of policymakers, practitioners and communities on making rangelands secure for local users” (12pp) reports on pastoral land rights and governance, land-use planning by the Mursi in southern Ethiopia, the progress of the Community Land Bill in Kenya, the continuing conflicts in Loliondo in Tanzania, […]
Where have all the nomads gone?
Mobile African pastoralists are probably undercounted or excluded from many data sources because of the difficulties in enumerating them. In the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it is expected that everyone will be counted and their characteristics measured. It is therefore important to develop appropriate strategies for including mobile pastoralists. In the article “Where have all […]