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Land Use Planning and Wildlife-Inflicted Crop Damage in Zambia

Environments

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2018
Zambia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
Urban Tenure
land-use planning
Damage to crops from wildlife interference is a common threat to food security among rural communities in or near Game Management Areas (GMAs) in Zambia. This study uses a two-stage model and cross-sectional data from a survey of 2769 households to determine the impact of land use planning on the probability and extent of wildlife-inflicted crop damage. The results show that crop damage is higher in GMAs as compared to non-GMAs, and that land use planning could be an effective tool to significantly reduce the likelihood of such damage.
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Rangelands: Making Rangelands More Secure in Cameroon: A Review of Good Practice

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
Cameroon
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land governance
land rights
land use
pastoralists
rangelands
Rangelands cover a surface area of more than 2 million hectares in Cameroon. Despite their relatively unpredictable climate and unproductive nature they provide a wide variety of goods and services including forage for livestock, habitat for wildlife, water and minerals, woody products, recreational services, nature conservation as well as acting as carbon sinks. Rangelands in Cameroon are predominantly grassland savanna with three types distinguishable: the Guinean savanna, Sudan savanna (also known as ‘derived montane grasslands’), and the Sahel savanna.
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‘Civilizing’ the pastoral frontier: land grabbing, dispossession and coercive agrarian development in Ethiopia

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2018
Ethiopia
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
development
pastoral lands
natural resources
land rights
eviction
pastoralists
This paper analyzes frontier dynamics of land dispossessions in Ethiopia’s pastoral lowland regions. Through a case study of two sedentarization schemes in South Omo Valley, we illustrate how politics of coercive sedentarization are legitimated in the ‘civilizing’ impetus of ‘improvement schemes’ for ‘backward’ pastoralists. We study sedentarization schemes that are implemented to evict pastoralist communities from grazing land to be appropriated by corporate investors.
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Gender and the commons: Pastoral women’s land rights and village land use planning in Tanzania: Experiences from the sustainable rangeland management project

Conference Papers & Reports
July, 2017
Tanzania, Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa
Land & Gender
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
pastoral lands
rangelands
pastoralists
land-use planning
women
In pastoral societies women face many challenges. Some describe these as a ‘double burden’ –
that is, as pastoralists and as women. However, pastoral women may obtain a significant degree
of protection from customary law even if customary institutions are male-dominated. In periods
of change (economic, social, political), this protection may be lost, and without protection from
statutory laws, women are in danger of “falling between two stools” (Adoko and Levine 2009). A
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Joint Village Land Use Planning in Tanzania: A process to enhance the securing of rangelands and resolving land use conflicts

Conference Papers & Reports
November, 2017
Tanzania, Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
pastoral lands
rangelands
pastoralists
land-use planning
In Tanzania, ongoing land insecurity is a structural cause of food insecurity particularly for
pastoralists, agro-pastoralists and small-scale crop farmers leading to land use conflicts,
compromised access to resources including grazing and water and rangeland degradation.
Land tenure security and management can be improved through village land use planning (VLUP)
and land certification – namely the issuing of certificates of customary rights of occupancy
(CCROs). In situations where villages share resources such as grazing areas and water, joint village
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The Community Land Act in Kenya

Opportunities and Challenges for Communities

Journal Articles & Books
Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2018
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
community land rights
customary land rights
customary law
customary tenure
indigenous peoples' land rights
land law
land registration
pastoralists
women
Kenya is the most recent African state to acknowledge customary tenure as producing lawful property rights, not merely rights of occupation and use on government or public lands. This paper researches this new legal environment. This promises land security for 6 to 10 million Kenyans, most of who are members of pastoral or other poorer rural communities. Analysis is prefaced with substantial background on legal trends continentally, but the focus is on Kenya’s Community Land Act, 2016, as the framework through which customary holdings are to be identified and registered.
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Pastoral women’s land rights and village land use planning in Tanzania: Experiences from the sustainable rangeland management project

Conference Papers & Reports
March, 2017
Eastern Africa, Tanzania, Southern Africa
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land reform
land-use planning
pastoral lands
pastoralists
rangelands
women
In pastoral societies women face many challenges. Some describe these as a ‘double burden’ – that is, as pastoralists and as women. However, pastoral women may obtain a significant degree of protection from customary law even if customary institutions are male-dominated. In periods of change (economic, social, political), this protection may be lost, and without protection from statutory laws, women are in danger of “falling between two stools” (Adoko and Levine 2009).
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Measuring sustainable intensification in smallholder agroecosystems: A review

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2017
Sub-Saharan Africa
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
food security
rangelands
Sustainable intensification (SI) is at the forefront of food security discussions as a means to meet the growing demand for agricultural production while conserving land and other resources. A broader definition of SI is emerging that takes into account the human condition, nutrition and social equity. Next steps require identification of indicators and associated metrics, to track progress, assess tradeoffs and identify synergies. Through a systematic, qualitative review of the literature we identified SI indicators, with a primary focus on African smallholder farming systems.
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Making rangelands more secure in Cameroon: Lessons learned and recommendations for policy makers, development actors and pastoralists

Conference Papers & Reports
March, 2017
Cameroon, Africa, Western Africa
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
pastoral lands
rangelands
pastoralists
land-use planning
In Cameroon, rangelands occupy about 20 % of surface area; provide critical habitat to many animal and

plant species; offer many vital goods and services to society and are home to pastoralists, agropastoralists,

crop farmers, fishermen and hunter-gatherers, who for centuries co-existed peacefully. In

recent years this harmony is being threatened by changing land use patterns, poor land use planning and

poor recognition of ownership rights. Despite efforts by state and non-state actors to improve pastoral
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The Seventh National Development Plan 2017 - 2021

Legislation & Policies
June, 2017
Zambia
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
Urban Tenure
agrarian reform
agrarian structure
agricultural and rural legislation
agricultural land management
alienation (land)
land acquisitions
land administration
women
youth
Zambia remains committed to the socio-economic development planning of the country as reflected by the return to development planning in 2005. The Seventh National Development Plan (7NDP) for the period 2017- 2021 is the successor to the Revised Sixth National Development Plan, 2013-2016 (R-SNDP) following its expiry in December 2016. The Plan, like the three national development plans (NDPs) that preceded it, is aimed at attaining the long-term objectives as outlined in the Vision 2030 of becoming a “prosperous middle-income country by 2030”.