Large-scale land acquisitions have increased in scale and pace due to changes in commodity markets, agricultural investment strategies, land prices, and a range of other policy and market forces. The areas most affected are the global “commons” – lands that local people traditionally use collectively — including much of the world’s forests, wetlands, and rangelands. In some cases land acquisition occurs with environmental objectives in sight – including the setting aside of land as protected areas for biodiversity conservation.
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Library ResourcePublication évaluée par des pairsoctobre, 2014Éthiopie, Kenya, Mongolie, Inde
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Report No.3 , Kenya.
Publication évaluée par des pairsseptembre, 2012KenyaAcross the world, areas with high or important biodiversity are often located within Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ conserved territories and areas (ICCAs). Traditional and contemporary systems of stewardship embedded within cultural practices enable the conservation, restoration and connectivity of ecosystems, habitats, and specific species in accordance with indigenous and local worldviews. In spite of the benefits ICCAs have for maintaining the integrity of ecosystems, cultures and human wellbeing, they are under increasing threat.
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Options for Land Use and Conflict Resolution in Loliondo Division, Ngorongoro District
Rapports et recherchesfévrier, 2011République-Unie de TanzanieThis report provides an overview of the conflict in Loliondo, reviewing historical information, current land uses and tenure arrangements.
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The Case of Bioshape, Kilwa District
Publication évaluée par des pairsnovembre, 2013République-Unie de TanzanieOne of the most wellknown biofuel investments was that of Bioshape, which acquired approximately 34,000 ha in Kilwa District for the cultivation of jatropha.
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Experiences and insights from working to secure hunter-gatherer and pastoralist land rights in Northern Tanzania
Rapports et recherchesdécembre, 2012République-Unie de TanzanieIn this publication two pioneering grassroots organisations from northern Tanzania examine and present their experiences and insights from their long-term work to secure the land rights of hunter-gatherer and pastoral communities. The case studies were presented at a one-day learning event held on 5th October 2012, when Pastoral Women’s Council (PWC) and Ujamaa Community Resource Team (UCRT) joined together to share and reflect on their work to secure land rights, to learn from each other, and to identify ways to build on their achievements moving forward.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 2015République-Unie de Tanzanie
Pastoralist and hunter-gatherer communities in Tanzania are gaining rights to own and control their land as the foundation for generating new income through REDD+
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2014République-Unie de Tanzanie
Through a range of local initiatives and collaborations developed over the past 15 years, Tanzania’s Yaeda Valley, the primary remaining home territory for the last community of Hadzabe hunter-gatherers, has become a model for community-based conservation.
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Library ResourcePublication évaluée par des pairsoctobre, 2012République-Unie de Tanzanie
Like many of its neighbors, Tanzania is experiencing a well-documented surge of land grabbing related to investments in industries such as agriculture, biofuels, tourism, hunting, and forestry. Land grabbing in Tanzania is best understood and analyzed as both a symptom of and contributor towards wider political economic processes of change occurring in Tanzania.
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Final Evaluation Report
Rapports et recherchesjuillet, 2013République-Unie de TanzanieThe increasing importance of the Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) in Tanzania, where 17 WMAs are now functioning and 22 others are in various stages of development, begs the question of what successes have been achieved and what challenges remain to be addressed if this Community-Based Conservation model is to be sustained and even scaled up. There has not been a country-wide evaluation of WMAs since the pilot-phase evaluation in 2007 at a time when most WMAs were too new to yield firm projections for the long term.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2012Afrique orientale
This paper explores the development of a pilot PES scheme in the Tarangire ecosystem of Tanzania in response to specifi c wildlife declines and policy constraints. It charts the development of this initiative from its genesis based on PES experiences in Kenya. This paper specifi cally explores the questions of whether the utilization of free-market enterprise tools to achieve conservation goals infl uences Maasai livelihood diversifi cation in ways that are compatible with conservation.
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