Grazing rights in Namibia鈥檚 communal areas: A case study of a local land grabbing dispute in Western Kavango region

This paper presents the case of disputes over grazing land between local communities and pastoralists herders

From:
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Published
1 January 2014
Country:
Namibia
Document Type:
Working Paper
Theme:
Governance and Conflict
First published:
1 January 2014
Authors:
Muduva, T.

Abstract

While conflict and competition over land is a major trend in Africa, and there are allegations of 鈥榣and grabbing鈥� of large areas of land from local people, usually by foreign companies, other more localised forms of competition over land are less well understood. This paper presents the case of disputes over grazing land between local communities in Northern Namibia and pastoralists鈥� herders who entered the area and engage in alleged illegal grazing and fencing of communal land for their large herds of cattle. Fencing off of communal land (without authorisation) is forbidden in Namibia by the Communal Land Reform Act.

Citation

Muduva, T. FAC Working Paper 93. Grazing rights in Namibia鈥檚 communal areas: A case study of a local land grabbing dispute in Western Kavango region. Future Agricultures Consortium Secretariat at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK (2014) 19 pp.

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