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Farmer-herder conflict in sub-Saharan Africa?

Reports & Research
October, 2020
Africa
Land & Food Security
Land Conflicts
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land management
pastoral lands
farming systems
agropastoral systems
agriculture
conflicts
land conflicts
pastoral land rights
farmers
pastoralists
This report responds to heightened concerns over rising levels of farmer-herder conflict across a wide band of semi-arid Africa. We assess the quantitative evidence behind this general impression and review the explanations in the scientific literature, in the light of known issues with long-standing attitudes towards pastoralism and mobile populations. Looking at the data available, we find that total levels of all forms of violence have been rising in the last ten years — especially in some countries in West and Central Africa.
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Better land access for the rural poor. Lessons from experience and challenges ahead

Reports & Research
October, 2006
Africa
Land & Investments
Land & Gender
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land
poverty
pastoralists
land rights
land access
Indigenous Peoples
land markets
women
Main chapters cover access to land and poverty reduction, land redistribution, and securing land rights. The last includes the role of land markets, women’s land rights, securing local resource rights in foreign investment projects, protecting the rights of indigenous peoples and pastoralists, conflicts.
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Putting Pastoralists on the Policy Agenda: Land Alienation in Southern Ethiopia

Reports & Research
July, 2010
Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land
grazing
land degradation
pastoralists
Includes land alienation in the case study sites; impacts of land alienation; coping strategies; conclusions and policy recommendations. Found that livestock numbers are declining dramatically in the area, land degradation is increasing, people are becoming more vulnerable to drought and famine, and resource-based conflicts are increasing in severity. The traditional pastoralist way of life is increasingly making way for sedentary farming and enclosed private grazing land.
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Terres pastorales au Niger : les éleveurs face à la défense de leurs droits

Reports & Research
June, 2017
Niger
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
agriculture
pastoralists
Date: juin 2017

Source: Foncier & Développement

Par: Serge Aubague, Nasser Sani Baaré

Le Niger est probablement le pays sahélien disposant du corpus juridique et du dispositif institutionnel le plus élaboré pour prémunir les pasteurs contre l’accaparement des terres pastorales. Ceci ne suffit hélas pas à endiguer le phénomène.
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Traditional institutions, multiple stakeholders and modern perspectives in common property.

Accompanying change within Borana pastoral systems.

Reports & Research
January, 2003
Ethiopia
capacity development
common property
land conflicts
environment
forestry
Indigenous Peoples
land governance
land rights
legal empowerment
local communities
natural resources management
pastoralists
rural development
Forests and pastoralism are in a state of crisis in the Borana lowlands in southern Ethiopia. State management has failed to control forest exploitation and past and present development interventions continue to undermine pastoral production systems. In this paper the authors aim to show how a fundamental misunderstanding of pastoral land management, and in particular pastoral tenure systems, has undermined traditional institutions and the environment for which they were once responsible.
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The Pastoral Women’s Council: Empowerment for Tanzania’s Maasai

Reports & Research
January, 2008
Tanzania
Land & Investments
women
pastoralists
land rights
land grabbing
The Pastoral Women’s Council (PWC) is a community-based organisation established in 1997 in Tanzania. It was founded to promote the development of Maasai pastoralist women and children by facilitating their access to education, health, social services and economic empowerment. It seeks to address women’s marginalisation in patriarchal Maasai culture, as well as the poverty among the Maasai that has long been underpinned by land access restrictions for pastoralists, hunters and gatherers.