Locally managed irrigation systems: essential tasks and implications for assistance, management transfer and turnover programs
This monograph examines the construction, operation and maintenance tasks that shape the nature of locally managed irrigation systems. The objective of the book is to identify relevant experiences and lessons for staff who are responsible for working with locally managed systems in three types of programs: direct assistance to existing locally managed irrigation systems, turnover of public owned systems to local management, and transfer of partial management to farmer groups within larger systems that remain publicly controlled.
Working with Pastoralist NGOs and Land Conflicts in Tanzania.
This a report of a workshop held in December 1994, that aimed to find new ways of working with conflict over land use. A number of case studies in northern Tanzania were discussed.
Land disputes in Uganda
An overview of the types of land disputes and the dispute settlement fora.
An Acacia Based Design for Sustainable Livestock Carrying Capacity on Irrigated Farmlands in Semi-Arid Africa
Unruh JD (1993) An acacia-based design for sustainable livestock carrying capacity on irrigated farmlands in semi-arid East Africa. Ecological Engineering 2: 131-148
Restocking refugee nomads on the Horn of Africa
Repeated and lingering famine on the Horn of Africa has produced enormous pastoralist refugee populations in a region where livestock production is a major form of land use. Permanently settling destitute pastoralists into pursuits other than herding has a record of failure, can disrupt host land-uses causing social and ecological problems, and can deny utilization of very large grazing areas where pastoralism may be the only ecologically and economically sustainable land-use.
Improving irrigation system management through farmer-to-farmer training: examples from Nepal
Comparative study of Pithuwa and Chainpur Irrigation Systems
Multi-functional non-residential irrigation organization: A case study of Kodku Irrigation System of Kathmandu Valley
The Ward Tribunals Act
An Act to establish Ward Tribunals, to provide for their jurisdiction, powers, practice and procedure and other related matters.
Enclosure of the East African Rangelands: Recent Trends and their Impact
This paper analyses briefly the reasons why enclosures of the rangelands is taking place, the short and long term impact on different groups, and the technical and environmental issues. Examples are given from Kenya and Somalia.
PUSHBACK: Local Power, Global Realignment
If 2009 was the end of the hinterland and the beginning of a new globalized forest era, 2010 was a year of pushback. Worldwide, the news was full of reports of forest communities and Indigenous Peoples pushing back at land grabs and shaping policy at the national and global levels, and of governments countering and trying to contain community rights. Some governments and private investors accepted or even embraced the new players at the table and began to promote fairer business and conservation models.