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   Responding to mobility constraints: Recent shifts in resource use practices and herding strategies in the Borana pastoral system, southern Ethiopia

   Journal Articles & Books

   March, 2015

   Africa, Ethiopia

   Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism

   land access

   land administration

   land use

   pastoral land rights

   pastoral lands

   pastoralists

   This paper investigates how Borana pastoralists of southern Ethiopia have adapted resource use and livestock mobility practices amid multiple constraints including rising population, loss of rangeland to other pastoral communities and changing access rights, among others. This study uses an innovative multi-scalar methodology to understand how herders' grazing management decisions are made within a context of communal regulations governing access to resources.

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   LAND ADMINISTRATION TO NURTURE DEVELOPMENT (LAND)

   PROTECTION OF PASTORALISTS' LAND RIGHTS: LESSONS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

   Reports & Research

   December, 2013

   Ethiopia

   Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism

   land administration

   land use

   pastoral land rights

   pastoral lands

   pastoralists

   rangelands

   Protection of pastoralist land resources has taken on a new urgency in light of the rapidly expanding global and national demand for land and land-based natural resources for large-scale commercial agricultural production, conservation initiatives, and mining. These activities threaten pastoralist land use systems.

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   Conservation and “Land Grabbing” in Rangelands: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?

   Peer-reviewed publication

   October, 2014

   Ethiopia, Kenya, Mongolia, India

   Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism

   advocacy

   agrarian reform

   agropastoral systems

   grazing

   grazing land rights

   indigenous peoples' land rights

   indigenous peoples' lands

   pastoral land rights

   pastoral lands

   pastoralists

   Large-scale land acquisitions have increased in scale and pace due to changes in commodity markets, agricultural investment strategies, land prices, and a range of other policy and market forces. The areas most affected are the global “commons” – lands that local people traditionally use collectively — including much of the world’s forests, wetlands, and rangelands. In some cases land acquisition occurs with environmental objectives in sight – including the setting aside of land as protected areas for biodiversity conservation.