Land and resource governance
Drylands Transform seeks to understand changes to land and resource governance. The findings will contribute to the identification of innovative governance mechanisms and practices that effectively address livestock keepers’ dependence on both flexible and secure rights to land.
Interviews, participatory observation, and focus group discussions have been carried out at the four study sites to understand how natural resource institutions and governance mechanisms at different levels (international, national, regional, local) combine to regulate land use and livelihoods among pastoralist and agro-pastoralist communities.
Sustainable development of East African drylands hinges on pastoralist communities’ ability for collective action to increase land productivity. A contingent valuation survey has been conducted to estimate willingness among pastoralists and agro-pastoralists for collective action to contribute money or labour to centers for knowledge exchange (Livestock Cafés) on land rehabilitation in their communities.
National policies and statistics relevant to the study sites and (agro-)pastoralism more generally will be collected to augment the findings from fieldwork. This includes policies and data on land and resource institutions, governance, and development initiatives.
Read about the postdoc carrying out this research.
Objective 4 leaders
Per Knutsson, Senior Lecturer
School of global studies, Gothenburg University
per.knutsson@globalstudies.gu.se, +46 31 786 42 14
Göran Bostedt, Researcher
Department of Forest Economics, SLU
goran.bostedt@slu.se, +46907865027, +46703141487