BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The brutal rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in India, that has triggered massive protests, highlights nomadic tribes’ vulnerability and lack of land rights, activists said. According to the police, the girl was kidnapped, gang raped and killed in the

The Kuchi nomads traditionally migrate in winter from eastern and central Afghanistan to graze their herds inside Pakistan PHNOM PENH, Feb 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Donors have refused to support 200,000 nomadic herders in Afghanistan who are running out of food and stranded with their

Rangelands are land areas with indigenous vegetation, including grass and shrubs, and used as a natural ecosystem for grazing livestock and wildlife. Rangelands occupy nearly half of the world’s land surface and include more than a third of global biodiversity hotspots, as well as habitat for 28%

Dynamic country portfolios combine detailed narratives with Linked Open Data to provide comprehensive overviews of land governance systems Developed in partnership with local experts and organizations, Land Portal’s latest country portfolios for Kenya, South Africa and Zambia on the Land Portal

  Thousands of pastoralists in northern Ngorongoro district made homeless as homes torched to protect wild game DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania Simat Rotiken and his family are braving cold nights huddled under a tree after their homestead was burned down in a scheme to protect a disputed wildlife corridor

Kenya's colonial wildlife conservation system is displacing native pastoralist communities from their historic lands.

Climate change, soil degradation and rising wealth are shrinking the amount of usable land in Africa. But the number of people who need it is rising fast. By Jeffrey Gettleman LAIKIPIA, Kenya — The two elders, wearing weather-beaten cowboy hats with the strings cinched under their chins, stood at

To celebrate International Women’s Day, Mokoro is pleased to share news of the successful completion of fieldwork in the fourth of six phases of our WOLTS pilot study in both Mongolia and Tanzania. WOLTS is a major multi-country strategic action-oriented research project in support of the land

Just published in the Mokoro newsletter online, some initial reflections from Mokoro's WOLTS project research in Mongolia from Mokoro Research Officer and WOLTS team member Zoe Driscoll. WOLTS is a long-term multi-country strategic action research project which is initially investigating threats to

By: Xu Shanshan Date: January 5th 2017 Source: ECNS.cn Due to rapid urban area expansion, some 300,000 sq. km of particularly fertile cropland will be lost by 2030.

By: Helen Tugendhat, Forest Peoples Programme Date: September 23rd 2016 Source: Brettonwoods Project World Bank grants waiver of indigenous peoples policy for Tanzania project US abstains from vote on project waiver Indigenous peoples highlight lack of consent, question protection of

Published today in the Mokoro newsletter online, an article from Mokoro Associate and WOLTS team member Roman Moges Asefaha.