دورية أكاديمية
‘We are our land’—Ogiek of Mount Elgon, Kenya: securing community tenure as the key enabling condition for sustaining community lands
| العنوان: | ‘We are our land’—Ogiek of Mount Elgon, Kenya: securing community tenure as the key enabling condition for sustaining community lands |
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| المؤلفون: | Justin Kenrick, Tom Rowley, Peter Kitelo |
| المصدر: | Oryx, Vol 57, Pp 298-312 (2023) |
| بيانات النشر: | Cambridge University Press, 2023. |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:General. Including nature conservation, geographical distribution |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Community-led conservation, Indigenous Peoples, Kenya, Mount Elgon, Ogiek, protected areas, sustainable conservation, Whakatane Mechanism, General. Including nature conservation, geographical distribution, QH1-199.5 |
| الوصف: | We outline how securing the community tenure rights of forest peoples can create a rapid, rights-based route to the effective and sustainable conservation of their forests. We draw on the different skillsets and experiences of the authors (long-term fieldwork, mapping and monitoring, and a lifetime of experience) to identify the conditions that enable the Ogiek of Chepkitale, Mount Elgon, Kenya, to sustain and be sustained by their lands. We also identify the conditions that drive the disruption of this sustainable relationship through an appropriation of Ogiek resources by external interests that threaten to degrade, alienate and destroy their ecosystem. It is increasingly recognized that securing sustainable conservation outcomes can be best achieved through the deep knowledge, connection and commitment that ancestral communities have regarding their lands. Evidence from Mount Elgon and more broadly shows that Indigenous Peoples are better guardians of their forests than international or state protection agencies. This challenges the idea that evicting forest peoples is the best way to protect forests. Other studies, including those conducted by the Kenyan governmental Taskforce on Illegal Logging, highlight the way Kenyan state agencies such as the Kenya Forest Service have been responsible for the severe depletion of Indigenous forests. We examine how collective community control can enable decisions to be made in line with taking care of community lands over the long term, but also highlight how this ability is under constant threat until and unless national law and practice recognizes the collective tenure rights of such communities. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 00306053 0030-6053 1365-3008 |
| Relation: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S003060532300008X/type/journal_article; https://doaj.org/toc/0030-6053; https://doaj.org/toc/1365-3008 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S003060532300008X |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/f81c3f0f7da74382841137155560da41 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.f81c3f0f7da74382841137155560da41 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 00306053 13653008 |
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| DOI: | 10.1017/S003060532300008X |