Pastoralism & Peacebuilding (page 5)
Green economy & degradation narratives cause land conflict in Tanzania
The Tanzanian Government, investors and aid donors have presented the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) as a model for the “green economy” in Africa, combining investments in large-scale farming with environmental conservation. In the Kilombero Valley, some small-scale farmers have been dispossessed through the expansion of capital investments in large-scale capital-intensive farming; others […]
Context analysis of pastoralism & agropastoralism in Ethiopia
As a contribution to further development of the Draft Policy and Strategy Framework of the Ethiopian Ministry of Federal and Pastoral Development Affairs (MoFPDA), Mercy Corps commissioned the SEGEL Research Training and Consulting PLC to analyse the context of pastoralism and agropastoralism in the country. The “Context analysis of pastoral and agropastoral areas to enrich […]
Pastoralists, politics, development projects & conflict in Kenya
Dryland counties of northern Kenya are expected to undergo massive change in the coming years because of the Government’s ambitious infrastructural development agenda, but the area frequently experiences ethnic and political conflict. A case study was made in Isiolo County, where planned development projects and conflict risks coincide. In the Bonn International Centre for Conversion […]
Uganda–Kenya Cross-border agreement for the Karamoja cluster
In mid-September 2019, the Presidents of Uganda and Kenya signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a Kenya–Uganda (Turkana/West Pokot – Karamoja) cross-border programme for sustainable peace and socio-economic transformation for the Karamoja cluster. The draft MoU for the joint cross-border initiative can be found here and the joint workplan 2019–23 for the implementation […]
Challenges in studying pastoralist conflict in southern Ethiopia
The Ethiopian Government continuously calls for policy-relevant research, but the attempts to fill the evidence gap cannot ignore the political economy and power dynamics in the country. The article “Fundamental challenges in academic–government partnership in conflict research in the pastoral lowlands of Ethiopia” (2019) by Mercy Fekadu Mulugeta et al., published in the IDS Bulletin […]