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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.

  2. Library Resource

    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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    A Lesson from Vernacular Architecture in Nigeria

    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2018
    Nigeria
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
    Land & Gender
    community land rights

    Contemporary architecture has its roots from the vernacular Every cultural group in the world has its own form of vernacular though the approach may vary from place to place and from people to people Vernacular architecture has many values which are relevant to contemporary architecture today This paper looks at vernacular architecture in Nigeria as practised by two ethnic groups who have varying climatic religious and sociocultural practices The approaches to architecture by these two groups ie the Hausas and Igbos are looked at with the intention of finding positive values in the vernacul

  4. Library Resource

    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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    Land Use Planning and Wildlife-Inflicted Crop Damage in Zambia

    Environments

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2018
    Zambia
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
    Urban Tenure
    land-use planning

    Damage to crops from wildlife interference is a common threat to food security among rural communities in or near Game Management Areas (GMAs) in Zambia. This study uses a two-stage model and cross-sectional data from a survey of 2769 households to determine the impact of land use planning on the probability and extent of wildlife-inflicted crop damage. The results show that crop damage is higher in GMAs as compared to non-GMAs, and that land use planning could be an effective tool to significantly reduce the likelihood of such damage.

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    Soil Organic Carbon Baselines for Land Degradation Neutrality: Map Accuracy and Cost Tradeoffs with Respect to Complexity in Otjozondjupa, Namibia

    Sustainability

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2018
    Namibia
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Forest Tenure
    Urban Tenure
    Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
    land degradation

    Recent estimates show that one third of the world’s land and water resources are highly or moderately degraded. Global economic losses from land degradation (LD) are as high as USD $10.6 trillion annually. These trends catalyzed a call for avoiding future LD, reducing ongoing LD, and reversing past LD, which has culminated in the adoption of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 15.3 which aims to achieve global land degradation neutrality (LDN) by 2030.

  7. Library Resource

    Soil and Water Conservation in Burkina Faso, West Africa

    Sustainability

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2018
    Burkina Faso
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Urban Tenure
    Forest Tenure
    Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
    land degradation

    Inadequate land management and agricultural activities have largely resulted in land degradation in Burkina Faso. The nationwide governmental and institutional driven implementation and adoption of soil and water conservation measures (SWCM) since the early 1960s, however, is expected to successively slow down the degradation process and to increase the agricultural output. Even though relevant measures have been taken, only a few studies have been conducted to quantify their effect, for instance, on soil erosion and environmental restoration.

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