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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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Media perceptions and portrayals of pastoralists in Kenya, India and China

January, 2013
India, Kenya, China
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
climate change
pastoralists
research
Through the analysis of newspaper articles and a survey of journalists, this publication identifies gaps and highlights differences in how the media portray pastoralism in Kenya, China and India. In discussing their methodology, the authors note that their reliance on national, English-language publications meant that they were not able to include data from vernacular language press in pastoral regions.Although able to make significant contributions to food security, livelihoods and economic prosperity, the benefits of pastoralism often go unnoticed.
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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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‘Land grabbing’: is conservation part of the problem or the solution?

Policy Papers & Briefs
September, 2013
Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
advocacy
agrarian reform
agropastoral systems
land investments
pastoral land rights
pastoralists
Large-scale land acquisitions are increasing in pace and scale, in particular across parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Weak governance and poor land use planning mean that commercial ‘land grabs’ often damage biodiversity as well as dispossessing people from customary rights and livelihoods. Land can also be ‘grabbed’ for ‘green’ purposes, triggering conflicts that undermine potential synergies. Expanded state protected areas, land for carbon offset markets and REDD, and for private conservation projects all potentially conflict with community rights.
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Participatory Land Use Planning as a Tool for Community Empowerment in Northern Tanzania

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2010
Tanzania
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
advocacy
agrarian reform
agropastoral systems
grazing
grazing land rights
land access
land acquisitions
land allocation
land use
land use mapping
land-use planning
natural resources management
pastoral land rights
pastoral lands
pastoralists
sustainable land management
This paper presents several case studies to show how the Ujamaa Community Resource Team (UCRT) has been working within Tanzania’s legal and policy framework to support a diverse range of pastoralists, agro-pastoralists and hunter-gatherers, all of whom face fundamental threats from external appropriation of, or encroachment on, lands and natural resources. The work also responds to local needs to rationalise resource use rights amongst competing local groups, such as farmers and livestock keepers.
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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.