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| Title: | African pastoralism: conflict, institutions and government |
| Editors: | Salih, M.A. Mohamed Dietz, Ton Ahmed, Abdel Ghaffar Mohamed |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Pages: | 311 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | London |
| Publisher: | Pluto Press |
| ISBN: | 0745317871 |
| Geographic terms: | East Africa Northeast Africa |
| Subjects: | 1999 natural resource management animal husbandry conference papers (form) |
| Abstract: | This volume is the outcome of an international conference on 'Resource Competition and Sustainable Development in Eastern and Southern Africa' organized by the Organization of Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA) and the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in October 1999. It explores the way in which farming and traditional pastoral livelihoods have strengthened rather than weakened in the face of government reforms. It reveals how traditional institutions and resource management strategies within local African communities continue to endure, in spite of the enormous pressure that development programmes assert, as pastoralists resolve to confront coercive State policies designed to privilege the interests of the wealthy and powerful elite. Revealing the link between the structure of power relations in pastoral societies and a shrinking environmental space, the contributors demonstrate the intractable problems of the sustainability of pastoral development in situations characterized by increasing land appropriation and conflicts over resources. The book introduces 13 case studies from Botswana, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda. Contributors: Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed, Mustafa Babiker, P.T.W. Baxter, M.B.K. Darkoh, Ton Dietz, Martin Doornbos, Samia El Hadi El Nagar, Ayalew Gebre, Johan Helland, Getatchew Kassa, J.B. Opschoor, J.E. Mbaiwa, M.A. Mohamed Salih, Frank Emmanuel Muhereza, Abdirizak Arale Nunow, Adano Wario Roba, Fred Zaal. |
