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"Since we have this land together"; A pastoral community in institutional management of communal resources.

The case of Olkiramatian Group Ranch, Kenya

Reports & Research
January, 2009
Kenya
Indigenous Peoples
local communities
pastoralists
land rights
common property
rural development
land governance
natural resources management
In Kenya, the pastoral Maasai’s districts have been the vanguard in rangeland tenure transitions and experimentation as pastoralists’ territory gave way to communal group ranches and to individual land holdings under diverse land-use activities. The tenure transformations have been accompanied by institutional and socio-economic changes that have had bearings on local communities’ capacities for collective action, pastoral livelihoods, and environmental sustainability.
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A Report of a Fact Finding Study on Conflicts between Loita Maasai and Batemi Sonyo ni Sale Division Loliondo District

Reports & Research
August, 2004
Tanzania
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
advocacy
agrarian reform
common lands
grazing land rights
indigenous peoples' land rights
Indigenous Peoples
land grabbing
land ownership
pastoralists
The conflict for which the research team has taken immediate measures to find its causes and give recommendations for its complete arrest, took place from the 1st-14th July 2004 in the frontiers of Engusero Sambu and Kisangiro villages, in the divisions of Loliondo and Sale, respectively, both of Ngorongoro District. Ngorongoro is the third division in the District. One person was killed and another injured in the subject fighting.
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A Review of Land Tenure Policy Implications on Pastoralism in Tanzania

Reports & Research
January, 2009
Tanzania
Indigenous Peoples
local communities
pastoralists
land rights
common property
land governance
land policies
natural resources management
A review of policies and interventions effecting pastoralists in Tanzania, including consequences on livelihoods, social relations and access to resources including land.
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A Study on the Impact of National Policies, Processes on Pastoralism in Tanzania

Reports & Research
January, 2007
Tanzania
Indigenous Peoples
local communities
pastoralists
land rights
common property
land governance
land policies
natural resources management
environment
Pastoralism has suffered untold abuses in the implementation of national policy and laws before in the incorporation of bills of rights in the constitution. These provisions allowed freedom of association that enable formation of CSOs and NGOs, some of which based their interventions into policies and legal issues that denied pastoralists of the rights to engage into livelihood processes through access to, management of, and benefit from land and resources entailed in them.
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A territorial development vision oriented to indigenous peoples: a possible path

Reports & Research
December, 2012
Angola, Mozambique, Honduras, Philippines, Chile, Australia, Ecuador, Brazil, India, Guinea, Guyana, Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
customary tenure
climate change
land governance
land tenure
Indigenous Peoples
land reform
land tenure systems
indigenous people's tenure
The purpose of this document is to promote a dialogue about land issues between FAO and its member countries, indigenous peoples, the Permanent Forum and other interested organizations. It outlines a number of basic principles of a methodological approach for indigenous peoples’ territorial recognition, starting from the consideration that a simple legal recognition is often not sufficient to improve living conditions for these communities. A more open reflection on the delicate theme of ‘development’ is also promoted and sought.
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Beyond Group Ranch Subdivision: Collective Action, Livestock Mobility, Ecological Viability and Livelihoods

CAPRi Working Paper No. 66

Reports & Research
January, 2007
Kenya
Indigenous Peoples
local communities
land rights
common property
land governance
natural resources management
This paper leverages datasets and results from two separate studies carried out across eight Kajiado group ranches and offers a unique opportunity to look at emergent pre- and postsubdivision trends from an interdisciplinary framework that combines ecological, political, and human-ecological research perspectives. It provides insights into the following issues: the loss of flexibility and mobility for Maasai herders’ dues to subdivision, the nature of collective activities that individuals pursue after subdivision, and the emergence of pasture sharing arrangements.
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Broken Lands, Broken Lives? Causes, processes and impacts of land fragementation in the rangelands of Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Eastern Africa
Land & Investments
gender equity in access to land
land governance
food security
land policies
land grabbing
land rights
landlessness
land conflicts
common property
Indigenous Peoples
local communities
pastoralists
extractive industries
The report considers the causes, processes and impacts of rangeland fragmentation on pastoralists in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda. Causes and processes include privatisation of resources, commercial investment, invasion of land by non-native plants, commercialisation including growth in individual enclosures, and conservation/National Parks. The impacts include increasing wealth divides and a growing inability to overcome and vulnerability to drought.
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Collective Action and Property Rights for Sustainable Rangeland Management

Reports & Research
January, 2005
Eastern Africa
Indigenous Peoples
local communities
pastoralists
land rights
common property
land governance
food security
land conflicts
natural resources management
environment
This set of research briefs present a summary of research work undertaken jointly by ILRI, IFPRI and the University of Gottingen. The research has the following objectives:

- To better understand how environmental risk affects the use and management of resources under various property rights regimes.

- To identify circumstances under which different pathways of change in land use and property rights are followed.
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Community and government: planning together for climate resilient growth

Issues and opportunities for building better adaptive capacity in Longido, Monduli and Ngorongoro Districts, northern Tanzania

Reports & Research
September, 2014
Tanzania
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
climate change
communal ownership
community land rights
customary land rights
customary law
environment
Indigenous Peoples
land governance
pastoral land rights
Planning for climate resilience growth is increasingly important for the natural resource dependent economy of Tanzania. Central government does not have the knowledge, reach, skills or resources needed to plan for the range of livelihoods within Tanzania; but local governments, if granted the authority and resources, could plan with communities in the flexible, timely and appropriate manner that climate variability demands.
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Community Land Law.

Best practices and approaches for the protection of Community Land Rights in Kenya.

Reports & Research
January, 2013
Kenya
Indigenous Peoples
local communities
pastoralists
land rights
common property
land governance
land policies
legal empowerment
A report of a Conference held in Nairobi 6-7th June 2013. Includes case studies on community land rights from South Africa, Uganda, Mozambique, Rwanda, Brazil and Kenya.