Pastoralism & Natural Resources (page 1)
Ngorongoro Maasai community meets with President of Tanzania
On 1 December 2924, 150 Maasai delegates from Ngorongoro, Loliondo and Sale met with Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan at the State House in Arusha. Over the last two years, different actors have been urging the Government of Tanzania to create space for dialogue between the Government and Maasai communities living in Ngorongoro and Loliondo […]
Pastoralism & protected areas
The Global Alliance for the International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists (IYRP) has prepared a position paper “Pastoralism and protected areas” for the 16th Conference of Parties of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP16) in December 2024 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Specific groups of pastoralists are not mentioned in this paper, but […]
Pastoralism & rangelands: people & institutions – glossary
The International Rangeland Congress (IRC) has collaborated with the Global Alliance for the International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists (IYRP) to bring out “Rangelands and pastoralists: people and institutions – a glossary of terms” in order to provide guidance for understanding socio-institutional terms commonly used when referring to rangelands and pastoralists. This Version 1, brought […]
CELEP’s understanding of pastoralism
In 2020–21, initially the CELEP core group and then other CELEP members and partners engaged in intensive discussion to come to a common understanding of pastoralism. This discussion was based on the pastoral development orientation framework that Saverio Krätli developed for MISEREOR. In the 3-pager entitled “Pastoralists turn variability into food”, CELEP’s understanding of pastoralism […]
Community conservancies impact herders’ adaptation to climate change
The establishment of numerous community-based conservancies in northern Kenya has brought about radical changes in the use of, access to and ownership of land. Research outlined in the policy brief “The impact of community-based conservation on pastoralists’ climate change adaptation” (2023, 4pp) by Jackson Wachira et al, revealed that community-based conservation aggravated pastoralists’ vulnerability to […]