Check this article in JPS (Oct. 2022) by Rahma Hassan (Ph.D. Fellow at the University of Nairobi and the University of Copenhagen, and CASAS member), Iben Nathan (Associate Professor at the Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen) & Karuti Kanyinga (Research Professor at the Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi).
Abstract: Pastoralists depend on access to communal rangelands but ongoing privatisation of land threatens their access. Further, globally, proponents of pastoralism call for state-sanctioned communal land rights to secure pastoralists access. In Kenya, the government has enacted the Community Land Act to secure communal land rights. This article examines how the implementation of this law affects pastoralists access to communal rangelands in Samburu county. Contrary to expectations,the legislation undermines pastoralists’ customary institutions and their authority in relation to land. It also speeds up subdivision of communal lands into private individual plots. This constrains rather than secures pastoralists access to communal rangelands.
Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2022.2119847
P.S. For a PDF copy, please get in touch with Rahma Hassan at hassanrahma2005@gmail.com
Also, check the Webinar What can we learn from the world of pastoralism for wider agrarian struggles? from the Agrarian Conversations series, with Ian Scoones, Maryam Rahmanian, Rahma Hassan. Link: https://www.tni.org/en/webinar/what-can-we-learn-from-the-world-of-pastoralism-for-wider-agrarian-struggles
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Carol Hernández
Carol Hernandez holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Portland State University, U.S., and is a professor/researcher at the University Program of Bioethics, National Autonomous University of Mexico. Her areas of interest focus on agriculture and climate change, seed sovereignty, and indigenous social movements.