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Land Tenure and the Sustainability of Pastoral Productive Systems: A Comparative Institutional Analysis of the Andean Altiplano and the East African Savannah

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dc.contributor.author Damonte, Gerardo
dc.contributor.author Njagi, Tim
dc.contributor.author Kirimi, Lilian
dc.contributor.author Glave, Manuel
dc.contributor.author Rodriguez, Sandra
dc.date.issued 2017
dc.date.accessioned 2021-03-31T08:42:54Z
dc.date.available 2021-03-31T08:42:54Z
dc.identifier.uri http://41.89.96.81:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2373
dc.description.abstract Executive Summary Pastoralism is the main production system practised in rangelands and drylands, providing livelihoods to an estimated 500 million people globally. Alternative land production systems are not feasible in these areas due to harsh weather and climatic conditions. Nowadays pastoral communities face challenges to accessing land and mounting pressure on their livelihoods due to misconceptions about pastoralism and global trends including population growth and climate change. This paper analyses the correlation between pastoral land tenure systems and the sustainability of pastoralism as a production system. We compare two regions in particular - the Andean Altiplano and the Kenyan Savannah – where we identify five types of collective land regime. We explore how these land tenure systems have changed over time and analyse the impacts on the sustainability of pastoralism within these very different ecological, social and cultural environments. We use a comparative case study approach to our analysis because it provides the possibility of isolating causal mechanisms for individual cases as well as constructing valid generalisations beyond the study areas. We find that collective land tenure is positively correlated with the sustainability of pastoral production systems. In contrast, individualisation of land tenure discourages these practices despite the fact that public policy in Kenya and the Andean region has favoured this process over recent years, thereby threatening the very survival of pastoral communities. We therefore recommend that public policy should be re-oriented to help pastoralist communities maintain collective land tenure regimes. In particular, we recommend policies aimed at strengthening community governance mechanisms to effectively manage land and supporting collective action among herders to improve access to markets and their trading power. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship UK Department for International Development (DFID), UK Aid through the ELLA Program. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Tegemeo Institute en_US
dc.subject Land Tenure -- Pastoral Productive Systems en_US
dc.title Land Tenure and the Sustainability of Pastoral Productive Systems: A Comparative Institutional Analysis of the Andean Altiplano and the East African Savannah en_US
dc.title.alternative Working Paper 65 en_US
dc.type Working Paper en_US


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    Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development is a policy research institute under the Division of Research and Extension ofEgerton University. The Institute is established under Statute 23 (14-t) of the Egerton University Statutes, 2013 under the Universities Act , 2012 (No. 42 of 2012) and its Instruments.

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