<div dir="auto">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 <div dir="auto">Investors from Denmark, UK, Netherlands, Finland. Google had interest of purchasing 12.5% from Vestal DK but backed off last minute. <br><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best practice Kipeto wind farm in Kajiado County. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I can provide more.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Ole Kaunga</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 6 Mar 2021, 20:35 Ann Waters-Bayer, <<a href="mailto:waters-bayer@web.de">waters-bayer@web.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Dear all,<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Do you know of reports, ideas or examples of:</div><div><br></div><div>a) cases of land grabbing in pastoral areas for generating renewable energy; and/or </div><div>b) examples of good practice of reconciling the interests of renewable energy generation and the interests of pastoralists?</div><div><br></div><div>If so, please share them with Joerg (<a href="mailto:mail@joerghaas.de" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">mail@joerghaas.de</a>) and me.</div><div><br></div><div>Looking forward to your responses,</div><div>Ann</div><div><br><div>
<div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><font size="1"><i>Ann Waters-Bayer</i></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><font size="1"><i>Agrecol Association for AgriCulture & Ecology</i></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><font size="1"><i>Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP)</i></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><font size="1"><i>E: <a href="mailto:waters-bayer@web.de" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">waters-bayer@web.de</a> / <a href="mailto:waters-bayer@agrecol.de" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">waters-bayer@agrecol.de</a></i></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><font size="1"><i>S: ann-waters</i></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><font size="1"><i>W: <a href="http://www.agrecol.de" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">www.agrecol.de</a> / <a href="http://www.celep.info" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">www.celep.info</a></i></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><br></div></div></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 5 Mar 2021, at 21:21 PM, Jörg Haas (privat)
<<a href="mailto:mail@joerghaas.de" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">mail@joerghaas.de</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div><p>Hi Ann,</p><p>many thanks - this is interesting.</p><p>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? <br>
</p><p>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.</p><p>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?</p><p>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.?</p><p>Best</p><p>Jörg<br>
</p>
<div>Am 05.03.2021 um 17:25
schrieb Ann Waters-Bayer:<br>
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Dear all,
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</div>
<div>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.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>It is based on the 42-page report
“Driving dispossession: the global push to “unlock
the economic potential of land” (<a href="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/sites/oaklandinstitute.org/files/driving-dispossession.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/sites/oaklandinstitute.org/files/driving-dispossession.pdf</a>).</div>
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<div>Take care -</div>
<div>Ann</div>
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