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IN SEARCH OF THE SOLUTION TO FARMER–PASTORALIST CONFLICTS IN TANZANIA

Policy Papers & Briefs
May, 2017
Tanzania
Land Conflicts
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
customary tenure
land dispute
local communities
pastoral lands
pastoralists
rangelands
Land-use conflict is not a new phenomenon for pastoralists and farmers in Tanzania with murders, the killing of livestock and the loss of property as a consequence of this conflict featuring in the news for many years now. Various actors, including civil society organisations, have tried to address farmer–pastoralist conflict through mass education programmes, land-use planning, policy reforms and the development of community institutions. However, these efforts have not succeeded in the conflict. Elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa traditional systems are not making much headway either.
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‘Civilizing’ the pastoral frontier: land grabbing, dispossession and coercive agrarian development in Ethiopia

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2018
Ethiopia
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
development
pastoral lands
natural resources
land rights
eviction
pastoralists
This paper analyzes frontier dynamics of land dispossessions in Ethiopia’s pastoral lowland regions. Through a case study of two sedentarization schemes in South Omo Valley, we illustrate how politics of coercive sedentarization are legitimated in the ‘civilizing’ impetus of ‘improvement schemes’ for ‘backward’ pastoralists. We study sedentarization schemes that are implemented to evict pastoralist communities from grazing land to be appropriated by corporate investors.
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The Community Land Act in Kenya

Opportunities and Challenges for Communities

Journal Articles & Books
Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2018
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
community land rights
customary land rights
customary law
customary tenure
indigenous peoples' land rights
land law
land registration
pastoralists
women
Kenya is the most recent African state to acknowledge customary tenure as producing lawful property rights, not merely rights of occupation and use on government or public lands. This paper researches this new legal environment. This promises land security for 6 to 10 million Kenyans, most of who are members of pastoral or other poorer rural communities. Analysis is prefaced with substantial background on legal trends continentally, but the focus is on Kenya’s Community Land Act, 2016, as the framework through which customary holdings are to be identified and registered.
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Land for infrastructure development: compulsory acquisition and compensation of unregistered/undocumented land in Kenya

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2017
Kenya
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
cadastral administration
cadastral register
capital value (land)
communal ownership
compensation
compulsory acquisitions
deed registration
displacement
eminent domain
land administration
land dispute
land dispute resolution
land governance
land investments
land ownership
land registration
land titling
land use
land valuation
management rights
natural resources management
research
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
title deeds
women
youth
Kenya’s Vision 2030 aims at transforming the country into a newly industrialized middle income country

and infrastructural development is high on the agenda to achieve this. Competing land uses and existing

interests in land make the use of eminent domain by government in acquiring land inevitable. However

most of the land earmarked for compulsory acquisition comprises of un- registered land whose interests

are not formally documented. Kenya has progressive statutes that provide for compensation of land that is
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Rangelands: Making Rangelands More Secure in Cameroon: A Review of Good Practice

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
Cameroon
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land governance
land rights
land use
pastoralists
rangelands
Rangelands cover a surface area of more than 2 million hectares in Cameroon. Despite their relatively unpredictable climate and unproductive nature they provide a wide variety of goods and services including forage for livestock, habitat for wildlife, water and minerals, woody products, recreational services, nature conservation as well as acting as carbon sinks. Rangelands in Cameroon are predominantly grassland savanna with three types distinguishable: the Guinean savanna, Sudan savanna (also known as ‘derived montane grasslands’), and the Sahel savanna.
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Understanding changing land access and use by the rural poor in Ghana

Reports & Research
May, 2017
Ghana, Africa
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land
land access
grazing
research
Highlights the key drivers of pressure in Ghana on rural land and their communities, such as population growth, urbanisation and acquisition of land by new actors, including government and business. Draws on case study evidence from two communities: the Ahanta West District near Sekondi-Takoradi in the south, and the Savelugu-Nanton Municipal Authority around Tamale in the north.
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Plan de Développement Économique et Social (PDES, 2017-2021).

National Policies
January, 2017
Niger
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
environment
pastoralists
land-use planning
rural population
land governance
natural resources management
youth
fisheries
land management
gender equity in access to land
forest conservation
forest land
sustainable land use
Le Plan de Développement Économique et Social (PDES) 2017-2021 est un plan quinquennal de l’opérationnalisation de la Stratégie de Développement Durable et de Croissance Inclusive (SDDCI) Niger 2035 adoptée par le Gouvernement le 9 mai 2017. Son objectif est de contribuer à bâtir un pays pacifique, bien gouverné avec une économie émergente et durable, et une société fondée sur des valeurs d’équité et de partage des fruits du progrès. Spécifiquement, il vise à renforcer la résilience du système de développement économique et social.
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Loi n°2017- 001 du 11 avril 2017 portant sur le foncier agricole.

Legislation
April, 2017
Mali
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
farmland
public ownership
pastoralists
land-use planning
land registration
cadastres
land law
customary law
Le chapitre I prévoit les dispositions générales. Cette loi porte sur le foncier Agricole.
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Africa RISING in East and Southern Africa: Some phase I achievements

January, 2017
Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land
rangelands
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Africa RISING in West Africa: Some phase I achievements

January, 2017
Africa, Western Africa
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
farming systems
land
rangelands