El acceso a la tierra es indispensable para la producción de alimentos y la generación de ingresos. Asimismo, constituye un bien social y económico decisivo, que reviste una importancia crucial para la identidad cultural, el poder político y la participación en el proceso de toma de decisiones. Las mujeres están asumiendo funciones mucho más importantes en la producción de alimentos y la ordenación de los recursos naturales; son las cabezas de familia en el medio rural en al menos una cuarta parte y, en ocasiones, en más de la mitad de los casos.

La Articulación Nacional de Mujeres Tejiendo Fuerza por el Buen Vivir demanda una política de acceso a la tierra para las mujeres, soberanía alimentaria y la construcción del buen vivir. La tierra es autonomía, libertad y buen vivir.

Durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX y la primera década del siglo XXI la mayoría de países de América Latina y el Caribe experimentaron grandes cambios políticos, sociales y culturales. Estos cambios tuvieron causas múltiples, situadas en complejos procesos que se expresaron a través del movimiento de fuerzas democráticas al interior de los países. Muchas de las demandas de los movimientos sociales, entre ellos el movimiento por los derechos de las mujeres, estaban encaminadas a lograr un trato igual ante la ley.

Las mujeres rurales realizan un significativo aporte en todos los ámbitos de la vida. Este aporte, que es social, económico, cultural y político, no es  reconocido por la sociedad, y las políticas públicas no son adecuadas para garantizar sus derechos. No obstante, las mujeres rurales continúan construyendo proyectos de vida dignos, territorios de esperanza y propuestas políticas para el país colombiano.

Del 60 al 80% de la producción agrícola en Latinoamérica está hecho por mujeres, aunque ellas sólo la usufructúan sin ser propietarias. A raíz de la Reforma Agraria de 1938 se otorgo a todos los campesinos de tierra; a título particular, como bienes ejidales o comunales que los beneficiaban, pero en el que no se consideró al gremio femenino.

Over the years, PINGOs Forum has been concerned with the future of Pastoral and HunterGatherer communities with regard to changing patterns of traditional land use and livelihoods options. The information gathered from the past studies have risen much concern on the side of PINGOs Forum that perhaps climate change may have a serious bearing in the land use patterns and livelihoods of Pastoralists and Hunter-gatherers. As a result of this concern, PINGOs Forum decided to embark on a study to observe changes that have occurred in land use patterns in recent years.

Tanzania is endowed with numerous resources including livestock. It is number three country in Africa in terms of livestock population after Ethiopia and Sudan. Currently, the country (Tanzania) has more than 22 million livestock, of which at least 95% are indigenous animals kept under traditional livelihood model known as indigenous pastoralism. At least 70% of Tanzanians earn their living through agro-pastoralism whereby around 40% of them entirely practices indigenous pastoralism.

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.

This fact finding is the fulfilment of PINGO’s Forum daily activities for inquiring the challenges facing pastoralists communities. In this fact finding, we will look at the impact of wildlife conservations in pastoralists areas. The Wildlife sector has become a threat to livestock sectors by which the wildlife sector is grabbing livestock grazing areas in the name of wild life conservation. In this fact finding we will look at the impact of established Randile Wildlife Management Area (RWMA) into the grazing area of Lolkisale village among other five villages forming the WMA.

This is a report of a fact-finding mission which took place in Tanga Region in June 2013. It aims to map the situation of pastoralists and the challenges they face in three districts of Tanga Region namely Handeni, Korogwe and Pangani.  There are similar challenges in Bagamoyo, Kilindi and Mchinga Districts which were not covered

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

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.