What can the world learn from a system that already understands how to live with the land, with uncertainty, and with movement? This session brings together Indigenous rights advocates, pastoralist community leaders, and land rights lawyers from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and North Africa to share the lived realities of pastoralists’ lives – from the mobility corridors of Karamoja to the shrinking grazing lands of northern Kenya. Through personal testimonies, Indigenous knowledge, and a call to reclaim land rights and cultural identity, the speakers confront extractive and static development systems, and pose a powerful question: rather than asking how pastoralism can fit into other systems, what can the world learn from a system that already understands how to live with uncertainty, movement, and interdependence?
