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Climate Change, Land and Resource Governance, and Violent Extremism: Spotlight on the African Sahel

Reports & Research
May, 2019
Algeria, Sudan, Western Sahara, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
agropastoral systems
development
environment
food security
grazing land rights
land conflicts
land rights
land tenure
natural resources management
pastoral land rights
pastoral lands
pastoralists
property
property rights
rangelands
Tetra Tech’s land tenure and property rights experts examine how weak land and resource governance can fuel drivers of violent extremism. With a focus on the African Sahel, this new issue brief finds this dynamic is especially prevalent when land and resource governance challenges are coupled with environmental disruptions, resource scarcity, or migration.
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La mise en place des comités de transhumance au Niger - Une démarche inédite et réussie en matière de dialogue multi-acteurs pour améliorer la gouvernance des terres pastorales

Reports & Research
January, 2020
Africa, Niger
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land governance
climate change
pastoral lands
natural resources
land conflicts
pastoralists
Au Niger comme dans tous les pays du Sahel, le pastoralisme fait face à des défis majeurs. La transhumance transfrontalière – pratique séculaire caractérisant le pastoralisme dans toute l’Afrique au sud du Sahara et dont les bienfaits ne sont plus à démontrer – est dangereusement menacée.
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Growing farmer-herder conflicts in Tanzania: the licenced exclusions of pastoral communities interests over access to resources

Journal Articles & Books
June, 2019
Tanzania
Land Conflicts
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
climate change
pastoral lands
land conflicts
farmers
local communities
The growing number of farmer-herder resource conflicts in Tanzania is often presented in official narratives as a product of climate change resulting from increased environmental pressures. Nonetheless, based on a qualitative research, this paper asserts that farmer- herder conflicts in Rufiji and Kisarawe districts should be understood in terms of the marginalization of pastoral community interests over access to land. This has created what Hall, Hirsch and Li [2013. Power of Exclusions: Lland Dilemmas in Southeast Asia.
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District Multi-stakeholder Forums: An Unexhausted Opportunity for Securing Land Rights; the Tanzanian Experience

Conference Papers & Reports
March, 2017
Tanzania
Land Conflicts
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
agrarian reform
agropastoral systems
capacity development
customary land rights
grazing land rights
land administration
land conflicts
Administration of land in Tanzania is more decentralized from the president to the village level. The law gives power to village councils and village assemblies to administer village land. The District authorities are given advisory and supervisory mandates over villages and represent the commissioner who takes overall administrative powers. Despite decentralization, institutions responsible for land administration, land have continued to be cause of many conflicts for years. Conflicts have been escalating and lead loss of lives and property.
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Wildlife Conservation for Tourism Investments or Villagers' Livelihoods?

A Fact-Finding Mission Report on Vilima Vitatu Village Land Dispute-Babati District

Reports & Research
June, 2007
Tanzania
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
advocacy
agrarian reform
communal ownership
compulsory acquisitions
encroachment
eviction
indigenous peoples' land rights
land conflicts
land dispute
land grabbing
A fact-finding mission team was formed as a result of consultative meetings on the land dispute between the village government and pastoralists in Vilima Vitatu village in Babati district. The team was comprised of the following members: Kassian Mshomba (LHRC), Seif Mangwangi (Majira), Diana Mawalla (PINGOs Forum), Hamadi Sadick, Emmanuel Cornel (PINGOs Forum), Asraji Mvungi (ITV), Rodgers Luhwago (The Citizen), Bakari Mnkondo (Uhuru), Bernard Baha (HakiArdhi) and Chambi Chachage (Independent Researcher).
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Proposed Amendments Submitted to the Ministry of Lands and Human Settlements Development

Legislation & Policies
June, 2012
Tanzania
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
advocacy
agrarian reform
land administration
land dispute resolution
land law
land management
land markets
land policies
land reform
urban planning
A comprehensive legal analysis highlighting gaps and recommendations in the four selected land related legislations in Tanzania.
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Vanishing Rangelands

Reports & Research
June, 2012
Tanzania
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
advocacy
agrarian reform
agropastoral systems
intensive land use
land access
land acquisitions
land allocation
land area
land conflicts
land use
pastoral land rights
pastoral lands
pastoralists
The primary aim of this study is to investigate the size of the range lost to other forms of land uses. This will support the argument that it is time to reconsider the pastoralists sector as a legitimate mode of production in the country which, like other sectors, deserve due priority.
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Eviction of Pastoralists from Kilombero and Rufiji Valleys, Tanzania

Reports & Research
February, 2013
Tanzania
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
advocacy
agrarian reform
agropastoral systems
displacement
eviction
grazing
grazing land rights
land access
land acquisitions
land conflicts
land dispute
natural resources management
pastoral land rights
pastoral lands
pastoralists
This report springs from series of field visits.Its aim was, among others, to examine further the extent of human rights violations suffered by pastoralists in Kilombero and Rufiji valley during the evictions. It additionally makes recommendations including the need for lobbying against the State’s contempt of court orders
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Report on Status of Meatu Litigation

Reports & Research
March, 2013
Tanzania
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land Conflicts
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
advocacy
agrarian reform
agropastoral systems
land access
land administration
land conflicts
land dispute
land dispute resolution
pastoral land rights
pastoral lands
pastoralists
According to the research and follow ups made by Pingo’s Forum and LHRC indicated that, most victims were not trespassers to the land as contented by the Government. The pastoralists including Sukuma, Taturu, hunters and gatherers (Hadzabe) lawfully living within the Conservation Area resisted the government movement to evict them without paying adequate compensation.
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The Fact Finding Mission Report on the Land Conflict and Boundaries in Rufiji District

The Predicaments of Pastoralists Evicted to Rufiji District

Reports & Research
April, 2013
Tanzania
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land Conflicts
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
advocacy
agrarian reform
agropastoral systems
displacement
dispossession
eminent domain
land access
land acquisitions
land allocation
land conflicts
land dispute
land use
pastoral land rights
pastoral lands
pastoralists
This fact finding mission had been organised to investigate the challenges facing pastoralists in Rufiji District, the challenges which have been defined as the source of conflict in this district. Although pastoralists had arrived in Rufiji since 1990’s but they officially went there and other places in Coastal and in Lindi Regions after they had been evicted from Ihefu and Kilosa in 2006-9. The Government, through their operation, announced to prepare areas for pastoralists and also to set all necessary and potential services for them to survive In Lindi, Ruvuma and Pwani Regions.