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Emergent or illusory? Community wildlife management in Tanzania.

Issue Paper No. 146

Reports & Research
January, 2007
Tanzania
Indigenous Peoples
local communities
pastoralists
land rights
common property
land policies
legal empowerment
natural resources management
environment
As with natural resource management reform processes elsewhere in East Africa, Tanzanian CWM has become highly contested terrain, both physically and conceptually. The linear, centrally-led, devolutionary reform processes that were conceptualised by donor and NGO supporters of CWM in the mid-1990s have not materialised. Rather, multi-faceted political and institutional conflicts over the control of valuable land and wildlife resources characterise CWM in Tanzania today.
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Natural Conservationists? Evaluating the Impact of Pastoralist Land Use Practices on Tanzania's Wildlife Economy

Reports & Research
January, 2009
Tanzania
common property
environment
Indigenous Peoples
land governance
land policies
land rights
legal empowerment
local communities
natural resources management
pastoralists
The land management practices of pastoralist Maasai communities have a major bearing on landscapes and wildlife habitats in northern Tanzania. Pastoralists manage lands according to locally devised rules designed to manage and conserve key resources such as pastures and water sources. Dry season grazing reserves are an important part of traditional land management systems in many pastoralist communities, providing a ‘grass bank’ for livestock to consume during the long dry season when forage invariably becomes scarce and domestic animals are stressed for water and nutrients.
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Integrating Pastoralist Livelihoods and Wildlife Conservation?

Options for Land Use and Conflict Resolution in Loliondo Division, Ngorongoro District

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Tanzania
Indigenous Peoples
local communities
pastoralists
landlessness
land rights
common property
rural development
land governance
land policies
legal empowerment
natural resources management
environment
This report provides an overview of land use conflicts in Loliondo. According to the Village Land Act No. 5 1999, all land in Loliondo is classified as Village Land. However, there is spatial overlap of Village Lands and a Game Controlled Areas. Prior to 2009 GCAs had not bearing on land use or management; however the 2009 Wildlife Conservation Act prohibits farming and livestock grazing in GCA. This new Act poses a huge problem to pastoral commuinities. An economic summary provides a better understanding of initial revenue that could be generated from Loliondo.
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Strenthening Community Based Natural Resources Governance through Local Institutions and Building Capacity of Pastoralist Communities in Garba Tula

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Kenya
Indigenous Peoples
local communities
pastoralists
land rights
common property
land governance
legal empowerment
natural resources management
environment
A summary of IUCN's work with the Resource Advocacy Project and the communities of Garba Tula, in order to secure rights to resources and improve conservatin practices.
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Governance for Conservatin and Poverty Reduction

An assessment of Natural Resource Governance in Garba Tula, Northern Kenya

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Kenya
Indigenous Peoples
local communities
pastoralists
land rights
common property
land governance
legal empowerment
capacity development
natural resources management
environment
IUCN’s work in Garba Tula (GT) through this project has now been underway for almost two years, and to date a number of activities have been implemented in the area. This has included: sensitization and awareness raising of local community members; providing support to help strengthen the operations of the Resource Advocacy Programme (RAP – a local NGO working in the Garba Tula area); and supporting work carried out by RAP members to document traditional institutions and strategies for governing natural resources in the Garba Tula area.
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Koija Starbeds Ecolodge: A Case Study of a Conservation Enterprise in Kenya.

AWF Working Paper

Reports & Research
January, 2007
Kenya
Indigenous Peoples
local communities
pastoralists
land rights
common property
rural development
land governance
legal empowerment
natural resources management
environment
Conservation enterprises are commercial activities designed to create benefit flows that support a conservation objective. The Koija ‘Starbeds’ Ecolodge was created jointly by a community group, a private sector partner and the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) to help protect a critical wildlife corridor and habitat along the Ewaso Nyiro River in the Samburu Heartland (www.awf.org). Many conservation enterprises claim success mainly based on their noble intentions,
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Pastoralists seasonal land rights in land administration

A study of northern Kenya

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Kenya
Indigenous Peoples
local communities
pastoralists
land rights
property law
common property
land governance
land policies
legal empowerment
cadastres
natural resources management
A series of papers on land use administration, land use change, securing of rights to resources and other in Laikipia, Kenya.
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Diversification, Experimentation, and Adaptation: Pastoralists in Communal Governance of Resources and Livelihoods Strategies

A paper presented at the conference Future of Pastoralism, Addis Ababa

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Kenya
Indigenous Peoples
local communities
pastoralists
land rights
common property
rural development
land governance
legal empowerment
natural resources management
This paper presents a discussion of the communal tenure system in Olkiramatian, a group ranch in the southern rangelands of Kenya which has granted the residents the flexibility and choice to pursue diversification alternatives that demand open landscapes.
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Participatory Land Use Planning as a Tool for Community Empowerment in Northern Tanzania

IIED Gatekeeper No 147

Reports & Research
January, 2010
Tanzania
Indigenous Peoples
local communities
pastoralists
land rights
common property
land governance
legal empowerment
natural resources 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. By using participatory
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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.