Namati’s Community Land Protection Facilitators Guide is a step-by-step, practical “how to” manual for grassroots advocates working to help communities protect their customary claims and rights to land and natural resources.

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1 Background The Pastoral and Agro-Pastoral Land Tenure and Administration Study (PALTAS) was launched because of the compelling need to identify and recommend policy that clarify and strengthen the land rights of pastoralists and agro-pastoralists and put in place appropriate administrative mechanisms to enforce their rights. It was designed to assess the land tenure problems in the pastoral and agro-pastoral areas of Oromia, SNNP, Gambella, Afar, and Somali regional states.

A Field Manual to support planning and management in rangelands including in Village Land Use Planning

Mwongozo wa Uwandani wa kusaidia Kupanga Mpango na Usimamizi wa Nyanda za Malisho ikiwemo kupanga Mpango wa Matumizi Bora ya Ardhi ya Kijiji

Recently dubbed “Africa’s Lion” (in allusion to the discourse around “Asian Tigers”), Ethiopia is celebrated for its steady economic growth, including a growing number of millionaires compared to other African nations. However, as documented in previous research by the Oakland Institute, the Ethiopian government’s “development strategy,” is founded on its policy of leasing millions of hectares (ha) of land to foreign investors.

Niger is a pastoral country. However, despite its crucial economic, social and cultural impact, pastoralism remains a very uncertain activity, and Niger’s successive governments didn’t invest much in it (1% of the national budget in 2009, versus 35% for farming activities). Though from 1993 the Rural Code has produced a number of rules and regulations in order to protect and revitalize pastoralism, it was also often accused of favoring crop farmers over livestock producers. Is that true ?

The delineation and protection of transhumance corridors are increasingly seen as critical to maintaining livestock mobility in agropastoral areas of West Africa by allowing passage through areas of increasing cropping pressure. Understanding the local politics surrounding the mapping and protection of transhumance corridors is important for policy formulation. This study reports the findings of group meetings in nine local districts (communautés rurales) in eastern Senegal about recently mapped corridors.

The adoption and adaptation of enclosures in the arid and semi-arid rangelands of sub-Saharan Africa is driven and sustained by a combination of factors. However, reviews indicate that these factors cannot be generalized, as they tend to be case specific. A study was therefore conducted to explore the history and reasons for enclosure establishment in Chepareria, a formerly degraded communal rangeland in north-western Kenya.

This paper investigates how Borana pastoralists of southern Ethiopia have adapted resource use and livestock mobility practices amid multiple constraints including rising population, loss of rangeland to other pastoral communities and changing access rights, among others. This study uses an innovative multi-scalar methodology to understand how herders' grazing management decisions are made within a context of communal regulations governing access to resources.

RESUMO BARRETO, André. Judiciário, direito à terra e reforma agrária no Brasil: um estudo da posse e da propriedade a luz dos conflitos coletivos e dos tribunais. 126 p. Monografia Final de Curso Centro de Ciências Jurídicas/Faculdade de Direito do Recife, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, 2012.

O ano de 2014 nos deixou a sensação inequívoca de que não será facilmente esquecido. Após a polêmica celebração dos 50 anos do golpe militar, e ainda no inquietante reverberar das jornadas de junho do ano anterior, a sociedade brasileira viveu um processo eleitoral absolutamente denso de tensões e  radicalizações.

Este texto apresenta aspectos do processo de regularização fundiária no bairro de Casa Amarela, na cidade do Recife, nas décadas de 80 e 90. Destacando-se a inovação na experiência adotada que conseguiu superar todos os entraves administrativos e judiciais em reduzido tempo e com baixos custos.