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.

Se você abriu esta cartilha é porque luta, acredita e se organiza. Onde você estiver, com que você trabalhar, seja na escola, na associação, no conselho, no sindicato, debaixo de um pé de manga, na beira de um rio, no agito da cidade. Seja bem vindo! Esta cartilha faz parte de uma série com seis publicações, organizadas pela Plataforma Dhesca Brasil, e cada uma trata de um direito humano específico: alimentação e terra rural, educação, meio ambiente, moradia e terra urbana, saúde e trabalho.

Este documento foi elaborado a partir da parceria do Ministério das Cidades com o Cities Alliance, visando a implementação do Banco de Experiências de Regularização Fundiária do Ministério. Apresenta a experiência de regularização fundiária no município do Rio de Janeiro.

Nesta edição, fiz alguns extensos acréscimos de informação histórica, resultantes da continuidade de minhas pesquisas sobre a sociedade que nascia no seio mesmo do escravismo. Tanto nos resultados de uma pesquisa sobre a acumulação de capital e a diversiβicação dos investimentos em São Paulo, no século xix, quanto nos de outra pesquisa sobre a sociabilidade própria da escravidão indígena e sua superação no século xviii.