Rangelands Atlas: an ambitious, first-of-its-kind inventory aimed at making rangelands a prominent part of policy discussions

The Atlas is publicly available at www.rangelandsdata.org/atlas

Who owns the land?: Perspectives from rural Ugandans and implications for land acquisitions

Rapid growth of demand for agricultural land is putting pressure on property rights systems, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, where customary tenure systems have provided secure land access. Patterns of gradual, endogenous change toward formalization are being challenged by rapid and large-scale demands from outsiders. Little attention has focused on the gender dimensions of this transformation. Based on a study of land tenure in Uganda, this paper analyzes how different ways of defining landownership—based on household reports, existence of ownership documents, and rights over the land—provide very different indications of the gendered patterns of landownership and rights. Although many households report that husbands and wives jointly own the land, women are less likely to be listed on ownership documents, especially titles, and women have fewer land rights. A simplistic focus on title to land misses much of the reality regarding land tenure and could especially have an adverse impact on women's land rights.Gender, land acquisitions, Land tenure, landownership, Property rights,

Woreda Participatory Land Use Planning for Pastoral Areas in Ethiopia

The WPLUP process was developed and then piloted. Following additional stakeholder consultations the process was finalised and a two-volume manual produced. The manual was launched in 2019 by the Ministry of Agriculture, followed by trainings

Participatory Rangeland Management (PRM) in Tanzania and Kenya

A guideline for PRM was published by SC-USA (Flintan and Cullis 2010). PRM was then piloted in Ethiopia by NGOs with technical support from ILRI. Now being piloted in Kenya and Tanzania, adapting the approach from Ethiopia

Woreda-level participatory land use planning for pastoral areas in Ethiopia

After the piloting stage and additional stakeholder consultations, the process was finalized and a manual produced. The manual was launched by the Ministry of Agriculture in 2019, followed by trainings

Uptake of Joint Village Land Use Planning (JVLUP) by the Government of Tanzania

In 2021 the Government of Tanzania released a revised edition of their manual for participatory village land use planning. The manual includes and promotes the joint village land use planning (JVLUP) approach, which ILRI has been supporting the government to develop and pilot. This will encourage the upscaling of JVLUP across the country improving the security of tenure of pastoralists and laying the foundation for improved rangeland management