Circling back from the recent post on the legal victory of this NRT case, it feels relieved that there are finally some justice brought to the communties, but it also feels inevitably heavy.
This is NEOCOLONIALISM. The neglection of indigenous knowledge and agency while implementing so called "ratinonal planned grazing," the dismissal of their land ownership and environemtal stewardship by controlling land access and even killing, the extraction of project profits while leaving very limited benefits to those who should be benefiting from their customary land. These are just so heavy and heartbreaking. And this project is not alone; it epitomizes the coloniality of so many other carbon offsetting project, be it in Southeast Asia, Latin America and so on.
How do we empower the local communties there to change, or should we count on external reporting channels like DW and REDD-. The top comment under the DW documentary really got me: "As a kenyan, it's embarrassing that a german media house is the one to expose this carbon credit/offset rue..."
Excellent, detailed report, thank you! Two issues here that I see. One is that this type of foreign corporate intrusion is in effect, more Enclosure of the Commons - the privitisation of land held in common. Is that the divide-and-conquer strategy for Africa? The other issue is on the business people's false notions of pasture management. Grasslands NEED the actions of hoofs more than once a year, to encourage proper grass growth. That, and the concurrent dropping of the manure for fertilisation. In between grazings, excess growth (if any) could be cut as fodder. The only proper measure of pasture success is the measure of gradually increasing depth of soil horizons. If you want it to be grasslands, it needs grazing, otherwise it is on another path, to species succession.
Circling back from the recent post on the legal victory of this NRT case, it feels relieved that there are finally some justice brought to the communties, but it also feels inevitably heavy.
This is NEOCOLONIALISM. The neglection of indigenous knowledge and agency while implementing so called "ratinonal planned grazing," the dismissal of their land ownership and environemtal stewardship by controlling land access and even killing, the extraction of project profits while leaving very limited benefits to those who should be benefiting from their customary land. These are just so heavy and heartbreaking. And this project is not alone; it epitomizes the coloniality of so many other carbon offsetting project, be it in Southeast Asia, Latin America and so on.
How do we empower the local communties there to change, or should we count on external reporting channels like DW and REDD-. The top comment under the DW documentary really got me: "As a kenyan, it's embarrassing that a german media house is the one to expose this carbon credit/offset rue..."
Excellent, detailed report, thank you! Two issues here that I see. One is that this type of foreign corporate intrusion is in effect, more Enclosure of the Commons - the privitisation of land held in common. Is that the divide-and-conquer strategy for Africa? The other issue is on the business people's false notions of pasture management. Grasslands NEED the actions of hoofs more than once a year, to encourage proper grass growth. That, and the concurrent dropping of the manure for fertilisation. In between grazings, excess growth (if any) could be cut as fodder. The only proper measure of pasture success is the measure of gradually increasing depth of soil horizons. If you want it to be grasslands, it needs grazing, otherwise it is on another path, to species succession.