Formalization of communal land tenure and expectations for pastoralist livelihoods

Senda, Trinity S.; Robinson, Lance W.; Gachene, Ckk; Kironchi, G.

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105961

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“…However, three broad categories of landholding rights are recognised: private, communal, and state holding. Unsurprisingly, the land certification process in the pastoral lowlands has lagged behind that of individual landholdings in the farming-dominated highlands (Senda et al 2022). Nevertheless, since 2013, the USAID-funded Land Administration to Nurture Development project has been helping the federal government and the regional government of Oromia to develop and pilot a certification process for pastoral lands.…”

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Can formalisation of pastoral land tenure overcome its paradoxes? Reflections from East Africa

Robinson¹,

Flintan²

2022

Pastoralism

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Legal frameworks for communal land rights in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania are now gaining momentum. Questions can be raised as to whether, how, and to what extent these frameworks take into account the disadvantages of formalising tenure and the complexities of pastoral resources. In this paper, we consider the impact of these challenges on the formalisation of communal ownership, beginning with an overview of how commons theory has influenced land governance policies and how it is applied to pastoral systems. We identify the main challenges that land policy interventions in East Africa face and ways in which the conceptual models of shared property rights embodied in current land tenure regimes are not well adapted to the socio-ecological characteristics of some rangeland landscapes. We argue that policy interventions capable of overcoming the paradox of pastoral tenure and strengthening tenure security while addressing herders’ needs for mobility and flexibility will often involve the progressive recognition of layers of sometimes overlapping rights, rather than attempts to subdivide landscapes into simple mosaics of discrete communal territories. This paper is based on an analysis of the legal frameworks for land tenure in the three countries and a review of the literature on pastoralism and land governance in the region.

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Section: Ethiopiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Can formalisation of pastoral land tenure overcome its paradoxes? Reflections from East Africa

Robinson¹,

Flintan²

2022

Pastoralism

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“…Pastoralist livelihoods face multiple challenges, including the loss and fragmentation of grazing land [ 15 ]. These challenges reduce productivity, thereby increasing vulnerability to shocks and stresses, and are exacerbated by insecure collective land tenure [ 16 ]. The climate-related changes in production capacity has led to alterations in crop yield, reduced crop biodiversity and increased pest-infestation in the region [ 17 ].…”

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Household livelihood resilience of pastoralists and smallholders to climate change in Western Himalaya, India

Kapruwan,

Saksham,

Bhadoriya

et al. 2024

Heliyon

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“…The growing scarcity of land and landlessness in poor countries presents a serious threat to food security [47,48]. Formal and informal institutional arrangements of land are the most influential factors that affect land use change and food security [49,50]. As a result, the role of land policy is fundamental to developing a better understanding of food security [51], the administration of land [51,52], poverty reduction [53], economic growth [54], and environmental sustainability [55][56][57].…”

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Smart Land Governance: Towards a Conceptual Framework

Azadi

Robinson

Barati

et al. 2023

Land

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Global environmental governance (GEG) is one of the world’s major attempts to address climate change issues through mitigation and adaptation strategies. Despite a significant improvement in GEG’s structural, human, and financial capital, the global commons are decaying at an unprecedented pace. Among the global commons, land has the largest share in GEG. Land use change, which is rooted in increasing populations and urbanization, has a significant role in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. As a response, land governance and, consequently, good land governance, have arisen as normative concepts emerging from a series of success factors (notably economic development, environmental conservation, and social justice) to achieve greater sustainability. However, global land governance has shown little success in helping GEG due to the lack of intellectual and flexible thinking over governing the land sector. Consequently, reforming land governance “in a smart way” is one of the most critical actions that could contribute to achieving GEG goals. Hence, we propose a smart land governance (SLG) system that will be well addressed, understood, and modeled in a systemic and dynamic way. A smart system may be smart enough to adapt to different contexts and intellectual responses in a timely fashion. Accordingly, SLG is able to promote shared growth and solve many land sector problems by considering all principles of good land governance. Therefore, in order to enhance adaptive land governance systems, efficient land administration and management are required. This study’s outcomes will raise the comprehension of the problems of land management, providing an excellent framework to help land planners and policy-makers, as well as the development of strategic principles with respect to the principal multidimensional components of SLG.

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Formalization of communal land tenure and expectations for pastoralist livelihoods

Cited by 9 publications

References 38 publications

Can formalisation of pastoral land tenure overcome its paradoxes? Reflections from East Africa

Can formalisation of pastoral land tenure overcome its paradoxes? Reflections from East Africa

Household livelihood resilience of pastoralists and smallholders to climate change in Western Himalaya, India

Smart Land Governance: Towards a Conceptual Framework

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