Pastoralism, Mobility & Land Tenure (page 31)
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 […]
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 […]
Economics of resilience in northern Kenya
The 53-page Kenya country report on the “Economics of resilience” (2012) focuses on interventions in arid and semiarid areas in northern Kenya where pastoralism and agropastoralism are practised. It compares costs of key interventions in response to drought – humanitarian response, early response and building resilience – and calculates the value for money of different […]