This guide is designed to help communities and policy-makers at local and national levels make informed choices regarding land use, business ventures, and public policy in pastoral areas, particularly the Maasai Steppe and other semi-arid parts of East Africa.
Formerly nomadic herders are settling and becoming agro-pastoralists, and subsistence and commercial farmers are plowing the rangeland that sustained both livestock and wildlife. Conflicts are emerging between farmers and herders; wildlife and people; newcomers and traditionalists.
The guide is intended for practitioners working on participatory natural resource use and management. It will be useful for district and village officers, the private sector and government representatives, NGOs and development agencies involved in the processes of land-use planning and natural resource management.
Year of publication: 2009Organization: Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Topic: Conflicto, Servicios ambientales, Tierra, Organización, Participación
Language: English, Kiswahili
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: África Oriental
This report reviews the causes, scale, consequences of, and responses to pastoral conflicts in the border region of Kenya, Sudan, and Uganda, utilizing methodological tools such as key informant interviews, retrospective analysis, and a thorough review of available literature.
Year of publication: 2009Organization: Autores individuales
Topic: Conflicto
Language: English
Type of document: Científico
Geographical coverage: África Oriental
This report combines a desktop survey and an in-depth study of Kenya’s legal framework and the extent to which it protects the country’s indigenous peoples. The report often takes reference to indigenous pastoralist groups in Kenya including the Endorois, Borana, Gabra, Maasai, Pokot, Samburu, Turkana and Somali.
Year of publication: 2009Organization: Organización Internacional del Trabajo
Topic: Pueblos indígenas
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico, Científico
Geographical coverage: África Oriental
In addressing the challenges facing mountain agricultural communities today, it is important to remember that mountain agriculture has developed hand in hand with pastoralism. Both large and small livestock sustain mountain communities, providing resources that complement those provided through agriculture. Pastoralism is not a strategy of last resort for agriculturalists pushed into marginal habitats. In fact, on the southern slopes of the Great Himalaya in Nepal, pastoralism has permitted agricultural communities to thrive and, in some cases, to extend their use of upper elevations into areas where agriculture is either marginal or impossible. A vertical look at lower, middle and upper altitude agropastoral practices provides insight into some different ways in which livestock management and cultivation interact within the larger context of mountain ecology.
Organization: Autores individuales
Topic: Cambio climático, Economía, Pueblos indígenas, Tierra, Resiliencia, Valeur ajoutée
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: Asia Meridional
This paper addresses the impacts of climate change in Mongolia asking what legal instruments can help to assure the adaptation of pastoralism - being the predominant economic activity and mode of life of the rural population - to the changing conditions. The analysis shows that securing the mobility of herders and their access to the relevant natural resources (pasture land, water, salt-licks) is a key feature for the adaptation to climate change and the corresponding risk management.
Year of publication: 2009Organization: Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Topic: Cambio climático, Tierra, Resiliencia
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: Asia Central
Una lista con 10 conceptos erróneos se presenta y discute.
Organization: Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (IUCN)
Topic: Economía, Servicios ambientales, Tierra
Language: English, Français, Español
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: Global
Las mujeres pastoras son extremadamente fuertes y poderosas. A pesar de los muchos desafíos a los que se enfrentan estas mujeres encuentran formas de garantizar y satisfacer las necesidades básicas de la familia; encuentran formas de acceder a los recursos y dentro del sistema pastoral tienen 'derecho' a la propiedad y hacen uso de el en muchos casos; y encuentran maneras de hacer que sus voces sean escuchadas. Este informe se centra en comunidades pastoralistas de todo el mundo dando como resultado un estudio global de buenas prácticas sobre el empoderamiento de las mujeres pastoras.
Year of publication: 2008Organization: Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (IUCN)
Topic: Economía, Género y juventud, Pueblos indígenas
Language: Español
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: Global
This paper developed from an articulated process to address the rights to land of pastoral groups, within a holistic perspective and accounting for changes brought about by climate change. It presents a brief overview of pastoral systems, analyses the rationale behind mobility as a strategy to cope with scarce and variable resource endowment, and finally addresses the rights concerning the access to and the control of resources in the context of climate change. The historical and geographical dimensions of the debate are illustrated by examples from various pastoral areas in the world. Recommendations for appropriate policy options and development initiatives for pastoral areas considering the challenges of climate change are provided in the final section.
Year of publication: 2008Organization: Instituto Internacional de Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo (IIED)
Topic: Cambio climático, Seguridad alimentaria, Tierra, Resiliencia
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: Global