No more Grass grown by the Spear
Mohamed Abdi et al. | Academy for Peace and Development / INEF | 2008
The focus of this report is on the rural areas of Somaliland, which experienced considerable socio-economic
transformation since 1991. Changing modes of production undermined traditional land management
patterns. Land grabbing and sedentarization tendencies, spread throughout the country, have effectively
undermined traditional common land user rights and deprived large numbers of nomads of urgently needed
resources. The dramatic increase of enclosures was aggravated by the lack of formal state authority able
to implement the existing legislation. Returnees who had lost their livestock during the civil war also try to
generate new livelihoods out of common grazing land. As a result of land grabbing, the remaining open
range land is under increased livestock pressure, leading to overgrazing, environmental degradation and
competition over shrinking resources.
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No more Grass grown by the Spear