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

Sun Mar 7 09:50:12 MST 2021

Dear all

I am sharing the link from India hope it will be useful.

Link

https://www.livemint.com/news/india/how-solar-farms-fuel-land-conflicts/amp-11600612526037.html

Thanks
Mayank
NAG-DNT

On Sun, 7 Mar 2021, 21:57 Boumouzouna Boumouzouna, <boumouzouna at gmail.com>
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> Le dim. 7 mars 2021 à 14:27, James O'Rourke <jorourke at csc.edu> a écrit :
>
>> Ranchers in the Nebraska Sandhills are going through the same issues with
>> wind turbines and pipelines.  Google Sandhills Task Force and see if that
>> brings up anything.
>>
>> Cheers!  Jim
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* IYRPGeneralList <iyrpgenerallist-bounces at list.cals.arizona.edu>
>> on behalf of Ann Waters-Bayer <waters-bayer at web.de>
>> *Sent:* Saturday, March 6, 2021 10:35 AM
>> *To:* celep-eu at googlegroups.com <celep-eu at googlegroups.com>; ILC Forum
>> on Pastoralists <pastoralists at dgroups.org>; Forum of the Pastoralist
>> Knowledge Hub <pastoralist-hub at dgroups.org>;
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>> *Cc:* "Jörg Haas (privat)" <mail at joerghaas.de>
>> *Subject:* [IYRP General List] Large-scale renewable energy generation
>> and pastoralism
>>
>> 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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