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Title: | Land Alienation in Borana: Some Land Tenure Issues in a Pastoral Context in Ethiopia |
Author: | Helland, Johan |
Year: | 1999 |
Periodical: | Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review (ISSN 1027-1775) |
Volume: | 15 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | June |
Pages: | 1-15 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Ethiopia Northeast Africa |
Subjects: | Boran land law animal husbandry Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Law, Human Rights and Violence Development and Technology law land tenure Pastoral economy Boran (African people) government policy Commons agricultural land |
Abstract: | This paper discusses the land rights of the Borana pastoralists as an example of pastoral land tenure in Ethiopia. Pastoral tenure rights are usually a simplified version of much more complex tenurial arrangements found in agricultural areas. The pre-eminence of State rights is characteristic of the situation. Pastoral tenure rights usually involve unclear group user rights to the resources, with poor legal protection from pastoral competitors or agricultural expansion into the rangelands. The land base of Borana pastoralists has been continuously diminished over the last century, partly because of political and military competition, more recently because of developmental approaches which encourage alternative forms of land use (agriculture, land grants to 'investors') and which have ecological repercussions (bush encroachment) which remove large parts of the remaining land resources from Borana pastoralism. The Borana have inadequate protection from the land tenure legislation, which does not take the requirements of pastoralism much into account. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. |