The pastoral and agro-pastoral areas of Ethiopia cover around 65% of the country’s surface area. Rangeland resources are managed under collective common property arrangements, which are increasingly coming under pressure from both internal and external forces of change including alternative, but ...
Awgachew, S.
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Flintan, Fiona E.
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Bekure, S.
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[Participatory rangeland management planning and its implementation in Ethiopia]
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Participatory rangeland management planning and its implementation in Ethiopia
In Tanzania, ongoing land insecurity is a structural cause of food insecurity particularly for
pastoralists, agro-pastoralists and small-scale crop farmers leading to land use conflicts,
compromised access to resources including grazing and water and rangeland degradation.
Land tenure security an...
Mwita, V.C.
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Kalenzi, D.
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Flintan, Fiona E.
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[Joint Village Land Use Planning in Tanzania: A process to enhance the securing of rangelands and resolving land use conflicts]
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Joint Village Land Use Planning in Tanzania: A process to enhance the securing of rangelands and resolving land use conflicts
In pastoral societies women face many challenges. Some describe these as a ‘double burden’ –
that is, as pastoralists and as women. However, pastoral women may obtain a significant degree
of protection from customary law even if customary institutions are male-dominated. In periods
of change (eco...
Kisambu, N.
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Flintan, Fiona E.
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Daley, E.
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Pallas, S.
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[Gender and the commons: Pastoral women’s land rights and village land use planning in Tanzania: Experiences from the sustainable rangeland management project]
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Gender and the commons: Pastoral women’s land rights and village land use planning in Tanzania: Experiences from the sustainable rangeland management project