Pastoralism, Mobility & Land Tenure (page 8)
Making green energy safe for pastoralists
One of the authors of the study on Pastoralism-and-large-scale-REnewable-energy-and-green-hydrogen-projects, Hussein Wario, Director of the Centre for Research & Development in Drylands (CRDD) in northern Kenya, gave his perspective on the study findings in a blog for Project Syndicate “Making green energy safe for pastoralists“ – also available in Spanish (Que la energiá verde sea segura para […]
Resilience & adaptation of pastoral herd mobility in West Darfur, Sudan
The dynamics of herd mobility in West Darfur, Sudan, a region affected by persistent conflict, is reported in the article “The resilience and adaptation of pastoralist livestock mobility in a protracted conflict setting: West Darfur, Sudan” (2023, Nomadic Peoples 27: 3-31, doi: 10.3197/np.2023.270102) by Hussein Sulieman and Helen Young. They examine the annual cycle and […]
Agropastoralists’ voices in Africa’s borderlands
The Africa Borderlands Centre of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) made a mixed-method (qualitative and quantitative) study “Promise, peril and resilience: voices of agropastoralists in Africa’s borderland regions” (2022, 152pp) among communities living in borderland regions in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, South Sudan and Uganda. In direct testimonies, community members describe […]
Pastoral land rights in Tanzania
The paper “Pastoral land rights in Tanzania: a review” (1992, 24pp) by Ringo Tenga, published in the Pastoral Land Tenure Series of the Drylands Programme of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), gives an overview of the status of pastoral land rights in Tanzania. It draws on statutory materials and existing case law […]
Mobile pastoralists’ use of ICTs: example in Tanzania
The book Media culture in nomadic communities (2021, Amsterdam University Press, 221pp) by Allison Hahn looks at the role of modern information and communication technologies (ICTs) within nomadic communities, above all, how they use ICTs to gain control over how they are depicted and to express themselves as citizens demanding recognition of their rights. The […]