Presentación de Liban Golicha (Kenya) en el marco del Seminario Internacional de Expertos sobre 'Diversidad Cultural, Sistemas Alimentarios y Estrategias Tradicionales de Vida' realizado del 4 al 6 de noviembre de 2014 en Cusco Perú.

1. INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON CULTURAL DIVERSITY,
FOOD SYSTEMS AND TRADITIONAL LIVELIHOODS.
CUSCO PERU
4TH
-6TH
NOV. 2014
LIBAN GOLICHA
WASO TRUSTLAND PROJECT
ISIOLO COUNTY
KENYA
Email: libangolicha@yahoo.com
Website: www.wasotrust.org
PASTORALISM
IN NORTHERN KENYA

2. GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION
 Size – 582,650 square KM (224,962 square miles)
 Population – 43 million
 Administrative Unit - 47 Counties

3. WASO TRUSTLAND PROJECT
• VISION
Empowered pastoralist communities that enjoys peace, secure
land tenure, abundant natural resources and sustainable
development in Isiolo County
MISSION
WTL exist to empower pastoralist communities to
understand and apply their rights and responsibilities
on the management of their land and natural
resources through training, education and advocacy

4. PROGRAM THEMATIC AREAS
1. Land Rights and Sustainable Land Use Practices
 To facilitate individual residents and pastoralist
communities in Isiolo county attain tenure rights and use
their land in a sustainable way.
2. Social Economic Development
 To equip community members with skills to sustainably use
culture and natural resources for economic gains and
promotion of social cohesion.

5. PROGRAM CON’T
3. Environment and Natural Resources Management
 To create awareness on community based environment
conservation concept and opportunities to sustainably
exploit natural products for economic gains.
4. Research, Documentation and Dissemination
 To provide information to aid other advocacy work on land
and land related issues in Isiolo County

6. DEFINITION
Pastoralism refers both an economic activity and
cultural identity
 Is a livelihood system that incorporates refined
resource management, production, trade and social
welfare mechanisms
Crucial aspect of pastoralist specialization are:-
I.The interaction of people, animals and environment; particularly strategic
mobility of livestock and selective feeding
II.The dev’t of flexible resource management system; particularly
communal land management institution and non exclusive entitlement to
water resources

7. STATUS
o Pastoralism is mostly undertaken in ASALs, that
make up more than 40% of the earth’s dry surface
and home to 35% of the world population.
oIn Kenya, ASALs occupy 89% of land mass, home
to 14million people and 70% of the national livestock
herd
o Pastoralists account for about 20% of the total
population
oThey occupy most of the country’s 80% arid and
semi-arid areas.

8. CHALLENGES
Pastoralism perceived as an outdated,
economically inefficient and environmentally
destructive land use system
Government policies to settle pastoralists and to be
‘modern’
Contribution to the economy of Kenya not
acknowledged by the state.
Pastoralist are economically and politically
marginalized
ASALs have lowest development indicator in all
aspects and the highest incidence of poverty.

9. Challenges Con’t
This was as result of:-
I. Conscious public policy choices taken in Kenya’s past,
under the heading “Provincial Balance and Social Inertia”
II. Biased policy guiding direction of gov’t resources
 Northern Kenya is now seen as the new frontier that will
provide new opportunities for space and in areas of
tourism and other forms of business ventures including
energy explorations
 Loss of land to investors, farmers, parks and conservancies that shrink
grazing lands and block traditional migratory routes
 Loss of wetlands, riverine forests – dry season refuges
 cultural erosion
 dispossession and conflict

10. OPPORTUNITIES
Demonstration of renewed commitment by GoK to
the ASALs since 2003
I. Economic Recovery Strategy Paper 2003
II. Ministry of State for Dev’t of NK and other ALs.
III.The National policy for Sustainable Dev’t of NK and other
ALs.
- Provision in this policies are consistent with the AU policy framework
for Pastoralist in Africa-approved January 2011

11. Opportunities con’t
New Constitution (Kenya Constitution 2010)
Devolution
 The devolution of power down from central to county governments can
potentially promote autonomy and self-determination at local community levels
 Equalization Funds
National Land Policy/Community land tenure System
“To secure community land, the government shall:
 Repeal the Trust Land Act (Cap 288)”
 Document and map existing forms of communal land tenure and facilitate the
orderly evolution of community land law.
Bill of Rights
 Right to language and culture

12. OPPORTUNITIES Con’t
Community Empowerment Initiatives
Community driven Bio-cultural Community Protocol (BCP)
initiatives that facilitate culturally rooted, participatory
decision-making processes within communities to assert
rights over their culturally managed lands and traditional
knowledge .
Free, prior and informed consent – Participatory
development/designing of community project

13. DIVERSE ECOLOGY

15. MOBILITY

16. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
Opens up pastures, stimulates vegetation growth,
contribute to seed dispersal, pasture diversity and
enhance nutrient cycling through the ecosystem
Helped maintain healthy wildlife population
through grazing actions

17. SOCIAL CHANGES
Restricted Mobility results to:-
 Human settlements
 Increased livestock concentration
 Environmental degradation
 Visible flash points
 Constraints movements
Causes
 Changing aspirations and economic needs
 Youth urban migration to seek formal employment or engage in new
forms of business

18. SHOWCASING BIOCULTURAL
DIVERSITY

19. WAY FORWARDWAY FORWARD
“The problem of under-development in arid lands cannot be
solved by the same approaches, mindset and methods that
created them”
Hon Mohamed Ibrahim Elmi,
Minister of State for the Development of Northern Kenya and other arid lands

20. BUILDING BRIDGES

21. END
GALATOMA!
ASANTENI!
THANK YOU!