The green transition aims at creating a sustainable and carbon-neutral economic system. Key to this transition is the change from fossil fuel based energy production and mobility to carbon emission free technologies. The transition also entails a switch to more sustainable land-use practices, including sustainable agriculture. The EU has committed itself to the green transition and is supporting its partners in their paths to sustainable economies through development cooperation. However, large renewable energy projects as well as new land-use plans that are considered and labelled as part of the green transition, may be at odds with traditional forms of land-use. Pastoralist people have traditionally grazed their herds on more than half of Africa’s land and have already lost access to some of these lands through green energy, new sustainable land-use plans and tourism projects. The workshop provided an overview of the challenges and opportunities pastoralists face through green transition projects in Africa. Based on the analysis of cases from Kenya and Tanzania, the workshop was an opportunity to discuss how the EU can ensure that green transition projects under its purview create more opportunities than challenges for pastoralists and other indigenous people in Africa.
Authors
Directorate-General for External Policies of the Union, European Parliament, Davies, Jonathan
- Catalogue number
- QA-09-24-371-EN-N QA-09-24-371-EN-C
- Citation
- European Parliament, Directorate-General for External Policies of the Union, Davies, J., Opportunities and challenges of the green transition for pastoralism and indigenous people in Africa – Workshop , Publications Office of the European Union, 2024, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2861/113384
- DOI
- https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2861/799930 https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2861/113384
- ISBN
- 978-92-848-1946-1
- Pages
- 69
- Published in
- Belgium
- Themes
- Development policy , Africa, Caribbean and Pacific
Table of Contents
- List of abbreviations 8
- List of boxes and figures 9
- 1 Introduction 10
- 2 Methodological approach 11
- 3 Pastoralists and indigenous people in Africa and their development challenges 12
- 3.1 Pastoralism and resource competition in Kenya and Tanzania 14
- 3.2 Competition between pastoralism and crop farming 15
- 3.3 Competition between pastoralism and wildlife conservation 16
- 3.4 Resource competition and conflict between pastoralists 18
- 3.5 Land tenure and pastoral lands of Kenya and Tanzania 18
- 3.5.1 Kenya 18
- 4 The green transition and pastoralism in Eastern Africa 20
- 4.1 The green transition and the EU 20
- 4.2 Frameworks for equitable green transition investments 22
- 4.3 Implications of the green transition for pastoralists and indigenous peoples 25
- 4.4 Potential contribution of pastoralism to the green transition 28
- 4.5 EU green transition investments in Africa in relation to pastoralists and indigenous peoples 29
- 5 Green transition projects and programmes in Eastern Africa 32
- 5.1 Lake Turkana Wind Power Project 32
- 5.2 Kipeto Wind Farm, Kenya 34
- 5.3 Geothermal energy development in Kenya’s Rift Valley 35
- 5.4 Carbon credits for rangeland conservation and restoration 36
- 5.5 Securing rights and restoring rangelands in Tanzania 37
- 5.6 Biofuel production 39
- 6 Conclusions regarding pastoralism and indigenous people in Africa and the green transition 40
- 7 Policy recommendations for the EU institutions, the European Parliament and EU Member States 43
- 8 References 46
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- List of abbreviations 55
- 1 Workshop programme 56
- 2 Introduction 57
- 3 Presentation of the In-depth Analysis on ‘Opportunities and challenges of the green transition for pastoralism and indigenous people in Africa’ 57
- 4 Debate with Members 59
- 4.1 Intervention from the European Commission 61
- 4.2 Responses from the panel 62
- 4.3 Concluding Remarks 64
- Annex 1 – Speakers’ biographies 65
- Annex 2 – Photos from the workshop 66
