Pastoralism, Mobility & Land Tenure (page 28)
Clarifying competition between wildlife & livestock in East Africa
The article in the journal Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice (2012), “Clarifying competition: the case of wildlife and pastoral livestock in East Africa”, looks at competition in using grazing resources in East Africa. In the literature, the term “competition” related to wildlife and pastoral livestock has been applied to any degree of overlap in habitat […]
Contested margins of Afar Triangle in the Horn
The “Afar Triangle” straddles Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti in the Horn of Africa. For over a century, it has been at the centre of state building and contestation between state and society. Its current relevance lies in the overlapping contestations of power, economic development and nationhood that mark the struggles of the Afar people with […]
Making Rangelands Secure Bulletin 5 (May 2014)
Joint village land use planning in Tanzania provides an opportunity for neighbouring villages to formalise previously customary arrangements for sharing of resources and livestock mobility across village boundaries. In Tanzania, the Village Land Act 1999 and the Land Use Planning Act 2007 state that villages should agree on their boundaries, register and certify them with […]
Making Rangelands Secure Bulletin 4 (Oct 2013)
The Making Rangelands Secure Bulletin 4 (October 2013) reports on the external review of the learning initiative Making Rangelands Secure, which has been renamed the Rangelands Governance Initiative. It focuses on Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. The bulletin includes papers on Uganda’s new National Land Policy, securing land titles for pastoralist women and resolution […]
Mobility is critical for economic & social development
We, the Coalition of European Lobbies on Eastern African Pastoralism, believe that livestock mobility is critical for the economic prosperity and sustainable long-term development of Eastern Africa’s drylands. Therefore, we argue that policies and laws should be developed and implemented that enable and protect livestock mobility both within and between countries in the region. These […]