Pastoralism, Mobility & Land Tenure (page 6)
Formalising pastoral land tenure in Eastern Africa
Legal frameworks for communal land rights in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania are now gaining momentum. Questions can be raised as to whether, how and to what extent these frameworks take into account the complexities of pastoral resources. In the paper “Can formalisation of pastoral land tenure overcome its paradoxes? Reflections from East Africa” (published in […]
Maasai delegation lobbying in Europe for their rights
In May-June 2023, a delegation of Maasai representatives is visiting several European countries, seeking international support to halt the ongoing forced evictions and human rights abuses against the Maasai pastoralists in Loliondo and Ngorongoro in northern Tanzania. See the press release in English, French and German. In Germany, the Maasai spoke with representatives from the […]
Maasai rights in Ngorongoro, Tanzania
The Ngorongoro Crater in northeastern Tanzania is a great tourist attraction. It is also home to Maasai pastoralists, who have been struggling for their human and civil rights since 1958, when they were resettled in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) by the colonial government after they were evicted from Serengeti area. The book Maasai rights in […]
Carbon offsetting replaces Kenyan pastoralists’ land use
The report “Blood carbon: how a carbon offset scheme makes millions from indigenous land in northern Kenya” (2023, 70pp) by Simon Counsell and Survival International focuses on the 2 million ha Northern Kenya Grassland Carbon Project of the Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT). The NRT calls it the world’s largest soil carbon removal project and the […]
CELEP contributes to MOOC on pastoralism in development
Pastoral development would benefit greatly from a better understanding of pastoralism by project planners. CELEP member organisation IIED (International Institute for Environment & Development) and Saverio Krätli (editor of Nomadic Peoples) have created a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), funded by Misereor, Germany, as an entry point for navigating the available knowledge on pastoralism, including […]