Pastoralism, Mobility & Land Tenure (page 12)
Changing land-tenure regimes in Darfur, Sudan
The briefing paper “Changing land tenure regimes” (2020, 14pp) by Helen Young et al. of the Feinstein International Center, Tufts University, highlights the evolving and overlapping tenure regimes of pastoralist and crop-farming livelihood systems in Darfur, Sudan. It shows how pastoralism and crop farming in the area represent an integrated approach to managing natural resources, […]
Participatory mapping with pastoralists reveals their mental maps
Understanding users’ perception of natural resources is important in planning their sustainable use and management. Pastoralist communities manage their vast grazing territories and exploit resource variability through strategic mobility. To improve understanding of the local knowledge on which this is based and to document this knowledge in a way that can be communicated with “outsiders”, […]
50 years of research on pastoralism & development
The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in the UK has issued a collection of IDS Bulletin articles that reflects on 50 years of research on pastoralism at IDS. The “end of pastoralism” was proclaimed widely in the 1970s, yet pastoralism has survived as a successful, resilient livelihood adapted to some of the harshest environments on […]
Historical ecologies of overgrazing in Kenya
The spectre of “overgrazing” looms large in historical and political narratives of ecological degradation in savannah ecosystems. While pastoral exploitation is a conspicuous driver of landscape variability and modification, assumptions that such change is inevitable or necessarily negative deserve to be continuously evaluated and challenged. With reference to three case studies in Kenya – the […]
Call to EU to adapt COVID-19 response in pastoral areas
7 May 2020: During the current coronavirus crisis, many African governments have enforced lockdowns: halting public life, disrupting supply chains and closing markets. The governments want to flatten the curve of infection with the virus so as to prevent the public healthcare systems from being completely overwhelmed by huge flows of people needing treatment. The […]