’Land Rights in Africa’ site is a contribution to the land rights dialogue and related debates. A library of resources on land rights in Africa – with a particular focus on women’s land rights and on the impact of land grabbing in Africa – the portal has been well received by practitioners, researchers, and policymakers, and has grown considerably over the years. Since 2012, Mokoro has been hosting and maintaining the site.
Year of publication: 2018Organization: Mokoro
Topic: Land
Language: English
Type of document: Databases
Geographical coverage: North Africa, West Africa, Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa
Mokoro’s Women’s Land Tenure Security Project (WOLTS) in Mongolia is investigating the state of women’s land tenure security in pastoral areas affected by mining. This report discusses possible means to improve gender equity in land tenure governance and secure the land rights of vulnerable people within communities, as well as support to communities to withstand threats to their land and natural resources. The report shares findings from Mongolia – a country that is well-known for both its longstanding traditions of nomadic herding and its mining boom over the past two decades. It concludes with comparative conclusions that shed light on the intersection of gender, land, pastoralism, and mining in Mongolia today.
Year of publication: 2018Organization: Mokoro
Topic: Economy, Gender and youth, Land
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: South Asia
Based on field research, never publicly-seen-before documents, and an in-depth investigation into Tanzania’s land laws, the report reveals how Tanzania’s Maasai are facing appalling levels of human rights abuses in the name of conservation and the promotion of safari tourism in the Ngorongoro and Loliondo regions. The report specifically exposes the devastating impact of two foreign companies on the lives and livelihoods of the Maasai – Tanzania Conservation Ltd (TCL), a safari business operated by the owners of Boston-based high-end safari outfitter Thomson Safaris and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based Ortello Business Corporation, which runs hunting excursions for the country’s royal family and their guests.
Year of publication: 2018Organization: Individual authors
Topic: Conflict, Food security, Indigenous peoples, Land, Participation
Language: English, Kiswahili
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Eastern Africa
A report on a FAO/WFP Crop and Livestock Assessment Mission to Mongolia in 2017, prompted by the prolonged drought from mid-May to end-July that sharply reduced the 2017 crop output and depleted rangeland conditions, raising serious concerns over the impact on livestock ahead of the winter/spring period. It estimates the impact of the dry weather on the 2017 wheat, potatoes and vegetable production; the impact on hay production and fodder supplies for the livestock sector for the forthcoming winter/spring months and; the impact of the drought on households, their coping strategies and contingency plans in view of the coming winter.
Year of publication: 2017Organization: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Topic: Climate change, Resilience
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: South Asia
This policy brief adopts the human rights approach to analyse the violations against pastoralists in Tanzania who are suffering personal violence, eviction from their lands and forced surrender of their lands and traditions, with serious consequences for their food security.
It calls on governments to safeguard the community against developments that jeopardize their right to food.
Year of publication: 2017Organization: Coalition Of European Lobbies For Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP), Individual authors
Topic: Conflict, Indigenous peoples, Land
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Eastern Africa
This publication defines key pastoral terms, debunks myths while providing key facts and highlighting the challenges facing pastoralism in the Sahel and West Africa.
Year of publication: 2017Organization: Individual authors, Inter-réseaux
Topic: Food security, Indigenous knowledge, Land, Resilience, Social services, Value addition
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: West Africa
Across the Horn of Africa, pastoralist areas have been one of the most persistent and difficult challenges for governments, and development and humanitarian agencies. Although often viewed as physically remote, universally poor, and subject to droughts and conflicts, in reality, these areas can also be economic hubs, with substantial livestock trade networks to local markets, and crossing borders to neighboring countries. Ethiopia, Somalia, Somaliland, and Sudan are all major exporters of livestock with most of these animals are sourced from pastoralist areas, or from producers who rely on mobile production systems. This synthesis paper reviews 20 years of research and focuses on the increasing socioeconomic differentiation in selected pastoralist areas, and the implications in terms of pathways to resilience.
Year of publication: 2017Organization: Feinstein International Center
Topic: Resilience
Language: English
Type of document: Technical
Geographical coverage: Eastern Africa
PENHA is an educational and research institute with a mission to reduce poverty among the pastoralists in the Horn of Africa through the empowerment of communities and to foster sustainable and dignified livestock-based and non-livestock-based livelihoods. This publications database contains PENHA's research published in different forms.
Year of publication: 2017Organization: Individual authors
Topic: Conflict, Economy, Education, Environmental services, Food security, Indigenous peoples, Land, Resilience, Social services
Language: English
Type of document: Databases
Geographical coverage: Eastern Africa