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A pastoralist looks after grazing livestock, as a shepherd, goatherd, swineherd, or cowherd in a way of life which is essentially livestock husbandry.

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Pastoralists Plead With Government To Help In Title Deeds Acquisition

19 July 2021

Kenya

Pastoral communities in Northern Kenya are pleading with their County Governments to allocate resources for community land sensitization and acquisition of title deeds.

LOCKDOWN VIOLENCE ALERT: As lockdown bites, multinationals resort to the use of herds hired from pastoralists to evict locals off their land

23 June 2021

Uganda

Kiryandongo – Uganda – As natives continue to resist illegal evictions, multinational companies opt to hire livestock as a new tactic to forcefully evict smallholder farmers from their land.

Green Climate Fund invests $23.1 million towards building the climate resilience of Mongolian herder communities

10 November 2020

Mongolia

UNDP-supported project to benefit close to one million vulnerable people in a nation where climate change is threatening natural resources and fragile ecosystems

Blogs

To secure equal rights to land, bring men and women together

13 July 2021

Authors:

Dr. Elizabeth Daley

Tanzania

Mongolia

Global

There is an underlying tension in the land rights movement that is rarely addressed head on, which is the perception that securing women’s land rights threatens community land rights. Community land rights are typically held by indigenous people, small-scale and subsistence farmers, pastoralists, herders and many other groups who are directly dependent on land for their livelihoods but whose land tenure is often the most precarious.

Gender guidelines to be distributed in all 330 districts of Mongolia

30 March 2021

Authors:

Dr. Elizabeth Daley

J. Batsaikhan

Lkhamdulam Natsagdorj

Mongolia

Global

Pilot study supports national roll-out of participatory land use planning

Sound, sustainable land management is critical to the long-term viability of Mongolia’s traditional herding way of life. And careful planning at local level, in a participatory and gender-inclusive way, is needed to underpin that.

Communities, conservation & development in the age of COVID-19: Time for rethinking approaches

11 September 2020

Authors:

Michael Brown

Africa

Latin America and the Caribbean

Asia

Global

The global conservation community now faces the added challenge of Covid-19 on top of a longstanding set of complex conservation, sustainability, and development challenges. In the wake of this pandemic, return to business as usual is not a viable option. The existing systems and structures upon which conservation is based must evolve. Climate change, biodiversity conservation, and poverty elimination efforts have been further complicated by Covid-19, with the brunt of the pandemic borne most acutely by the poorest and most vulnerable.

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Discussions

Making Rangelands More Secure

Closed

29 January 2018 to 9 February 2018

Facilitators:

Fiona Flintan

Dr. Pablo Manzano Baena

Jaukazin Gorkii

Partners:

International Land Coalition

Land Portal Foundation

ILC Rangelands Initiative

Africa

Asia

Global

Land and resource loss, and change and fragmentation in the rangelands have increased dramatically in recent years due to both ‘external’ and ‘internal’ influences, including a lack of recognition of land- and resource-ownership rights, poor land-use planning, and privatization processes.

Learning Initiative on Innovative practices and tools to reduce land use conflicts between farmers and livestock keepers

Closed

22 September 2017 to 1 October 2017

Facilitators:

Fiona Flintan

Babatunde Ajao

Kenya

Tanzania

Nigeria

The PROCASUR Corporation in Africa in collaboration with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) have partnered with the International Land Coalition, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the Land Portal Foundation and Resource Conflict Institute (RECONCILE) to present the Learning Initiative: Innovative practices and tools to reduce land use conflicts between farmers and livestock keepers, taking place in Kenya and Tanzania, between the 22nd September and 1st October 2017 under the framework of the PROCASUR-IFAD Programme “Strengthening Capacities and tools

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Events

Secure Land Rights: The Key To Sustainable Food Systems

2 September 2021

Global

Organizers:

Land Portal Foundation

European Commission

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

Welthungerhilfe

International Land Coalition

Netherlands Enterprise & Development Agency

LANDac

Women and Community Land Rights: Investing in Local Champions

16 June 2021

Location

Online

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Africa

Tanzania

Asia

Mongolia

Global

Organizers:

Mokoro

International Land Coalition

Land Portal Foundation

People Centered Conservation

HakiMadini

P 26: LANDS OF THE FUTURE – FUTUREMAKING WITH PASTORALISTS IN AFRICA

8 June 2021

Location

See map: Google Maps

Africa

Positive futuremaking starts when space, time and land with its inhabitants are brought and thought together, when diverse forms of life on, with and off the land can be accepted as valid elements of futuremaking; when unnecessary distinctions among livelihoods and forms of existence are overcome; and when all members of society are trusted to cooperate to build states on peaceful terms.

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Library

Climate Change, Land and Resource Governance, and Violent Extremism: Spotlight on the African Sahel

Reports & Research

May 2019

Algeria

Sudan

Western Sahara

Eritrea

Ethiopia

South Sudan

Cameroon

Central African Republic

Chad

Burkina Faso

Mali

Mauritania

Niger

Nigeria

Senegal

Tetra Tech’s land tenure and property rights experts examine how weak land and resource governance can fuel drivers of violent extremism. With a focus on the African Sahel, this new issue brief finds this dynamic is especially prevalent when land and resource governance challenges are coupled with environmental disruptions, resource scarcity, or migration.

Nigeria: The Harvest Of Death - Three Years Of Bloody Clashes Between Farmers and Herders in Nigeria

Reports & Research

December 2018

Nigeria

This report documents the violent clashes between members of farmer communities and members of herder communities in parts of Nigeria, particularly in the northern parts of the country, over access to resources: water, land and pasture.

Making Rangelands More Secure

Reports & Research

August 2018

Global

The topic of how best to make rangelands secure for local rangeland users is one of ongoing debates.

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Organizations

Drylands Programme, IIED

With research, training and advocacy, we help build climate resilience, productivity and equity in the dryland areas of East Africa, Ethiopia, the Sahel and Sudan

Federación Española de Ganado Selecto (FEAGAS)

La Federación Española de Asociaciones de Ganado Selecto (FEAGAS) es una Organización sin ánimo de lucro constituida el 15 de mayo de 1982, por las Asociaciones Nacionales de Criadores de Ganado Selecto, Entidades Colaboradoras del Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Medio Ambiente (MAPA) (actualmente Ministerio de Agricultura, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente), para la llevanza de los Libros Genealógicos del ganado, organizaciones que, a partir del año 1987, fueron reconocidas oficialmente como Asociaciones de Ganado de Raza Pura en la transposición, que se llevó a cabo, de la normativa

ILC Rangelands Initiative

The Rangelands Initiative of the International Land Coalition (ILC) is a global programme facilitating learning between and providing technical support to different actors who are working to make rangelands more tenure secure.

Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC)

The Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) is a private, autonomous, voluntary non-governmental, non-partisan and non-profit sharing organization envisioning a just and equitable society. It has a mission of empowering the people of Tanzania, so as to promote, reinforce and safeguard human rights and good governance in the country. The broad objective is to create legal and human rights awareness among the public and in particular the underprivileged section of society through legal and civic education, advocacy linked with legal aid provision, research and human rights monitoring.

Parakuiyo Pastoralists Indigenous Community Development Organisation (PAICODEO)

Mission & Vision:

To promote the livelihoods of Indigenous pastoralists through preservation of their cultural values, utilization of locally available resources and informed participation with consent for their development.Â To have Indigenous pastoralist community attain sustainable development and have its culture recognized, respected and preserved

Pastoral Development Network (PDN)

The Pastoral Development Network represents a world-wide network of researchers, administrators and extension personnel interested in the issues of pastoralism and rangelands. Between 1976 and 1996 the PDN was managed by ODI and published regular mailings including newsletters and a wide ranging series of papers on pastoralism and related issues. There were also a number of other related publications.

Regional Learnig and Advocacy Programme (REGLAP)

The Regional Learning and Advocacy Programme or REGLAP (which was known previously as the Regional Pastoral Livelihoods Advocacy Project) is funded by ECHO (European Commission Humanitarian Office) and aims to reduce the vulnerability of pastoral communities through policy and practice change in the Horn and East Africa.

REGLAP also seeks to promote the integration of humanitarian assistance with development interventions through disaster risk reduction (DRR) among governments, donors and national and international CSOs (civil society organisations).