[IYRP General List] Large-scale renewable energy generation and pastoralism

[Mali Ole Kaunga]

There is a well known case of green land grab..Lake Turkana Wind farm in
Marsabit County,  Kenya. The biggest in Africa. USD 7.6B , 365 turbines
generating 310MW and on grabbed land 140,000 acres
Investors from Denmark,  UK, Netherlands, Finland.  Google had interest of
purchasing 12.5% from Vestal DK but backed off last minute.

Best practice Kipeto wind farm in Kajiado County.

I can provide more.

Ole Kaunga

On Sat, 6 Mar 2021, 20:35 Ann Waters-Bayer, <waters-bayer at web.de> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> A member of Agrecol Association, Joerg Haas, has been working for years on
> issues of climate change and renewable energy. He is aware that “empty”
> land in the drylands that could be used to generate solar or wind power is
> often not empty at all and that such energy generation may impact
> negatively on pastoralists. He would like to know how big this problem is,
> and he is seeking ideas or examples of creative ways of ensuring that
> pastoralists can co-exist with large-scale renewable energy development and
> even benefit from it.
>
> Do you know of reports, ideas or examples of:
>
> a) cases of land grabbing in pastoral areas for generating renewable
> energy; and/or
> b) examples of good practice of reconciling the interests of renewable
> energy generation and the interests of pastoralists?
>
> If so, please share them with Joerg (mail at joerghaas.de) and me.
>
> Looking forward to your responses,
> Ann
>
> *Ann Waters-Bayer*
> *Agrecol Association for AgriCulture & Ecology*
> *Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP)*
> *E: waters-bayer at web.de <waters-bayer at web.de> / waters-bayer at agrecol.de
> <waters-bayer at agrecol.de>*
> *S: ann-waters*
> *W: www.agrecol.de <http://www.agrecol.de> / www.celep.info
> <http://www.celep.info>*
>
>
> On 5 Mar 2021, at 21:21 PM, Jörg Haas (privat) <mail at joerghaas.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Ann,
>
> many thanks - this is interesting.
>
> I'd be interested to hear if you or others on this list have come across
> instances of land grabbing in semiarid lands for large scale solar farms?
>
> Due to the massive cost decrease of photovoltaics, solar energy derived
> vom large scale solar farms in the dry tropics and subtropics is now among
> the cheapest sources of electricity. This is a good thing, given the
> climate emergency that we are facing.
>
> But I worry what this means for the land rights of pastoralists in arid
> and semi-arid regions? Are they going to be pushed aside for the purpose of
> energy generation?
>
> How could the interests of pastoralist and the interests of renewable
> energy generation to avoid climate breakdown be reconciled? Do best
> practices exist, code of conducts, etc.?
>
> Best
>
> Jörg
> Am 05.03.2021 um 17:25 schrieb Ann Waters-Bayer:
>
> Dear all,
>
> This 4-pager  entitled “This is our land: why reject the privatization of
> customary land” is not specifically about pastoralists in Eastern Africa
> but is certainly very relevant for them.
>
> It is based on the 42-page report “Driving dispossession: the global push
> to “unlock the economic potential of land” (
> https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/sites/oaklandinstitute.org/files/driving-dispossession.pdf
> ).
>
> Take care -
> Ann
>
>
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