The government cooperated by banning the fencing of lands on either the public domain or Indian reservations and by awarding beef contracts to the cattle companies.
Now they sit behind the fence, on land they tell me is part of a different country".
But the combined effect of increased climatic shocks, policies that limit mobility (e.g. fencing of communal land) and a lack of alternative viable livelihood options has made pastoral communities much more vulnerable to poverty (e.g. Sulieman and Elagib [2012]), particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa (Thornton et al. [2009]).
The impact of mining on human rights in Karamoja, launched on Monday in Kampala, says mining companies have disregarded the region's indigenous people's land rights – sometimes fencing off swaths of land without their consent.
Other large plains animals, including the mountain zebra, may have once sporadically utilized the area for grazing during periods of excess rainfall, but human interference (including fencing off portions of land and hunting) have eliminated or significantly reduced the movement of these animals in the area.
They have crossed into perilous pastures where red triangles dangle from thin wire fences to warn of land mines.
High-wire fences still surround pockets of land where buildings tumbled.
That fence circumscribes fourteen hundred acres of land, where the Swiss company Ciba once ran a dye-manufacturing plant, the Toms River Chemical Corporation, which opened in 1952.
Closer to the railroad huddled earthbound two-story structures, blackened with soot; plots of land fenced off with solid walls stretched along the rails, their terrain cluttered with car bodies, stacks of logs, or rusted constructions of unknown purpose.
So the NCF went ahead and spent Rs. 8 lakh to fence off eighty acres of land.
In order to conserve pasture for their grazing livestock, the Maasai were erecting fences across large swaths of land, particularly during times of drought.
