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Title:Pastoralism and development in Africa: dynamic change at the margins
Editors:Catley, AndyISNI
Lind, JeremyISNI
Scoones, IanISNI
Year:2012
Pages:295
Language:English
Series:Pathways to sustainability series
City of publisher:London
Publisher:Routledge
ISBN:0415540712; 9780415540711; 0415540720; 9780415540728
Geographic term:Northeast Africa
Subjects:pastoralists
development
livelihoods
trade
land conflicts
Abstract:This collective volume argues that, while the difficulties of creating secure livelihoods among pastoralists in the Horn of Africa should not be ignored, there is much to be learned from development successes, large and small, in the area. Development pathways at 'the margins' are constructed in new ways, that do not always get recognized or appreciated by the mainstream. A view of this 'development at the margins' highlights innovation and entrepreneurialism, not just coping or adaptation. The volume is organized into five parts: 1. Resources and production (chapters on the sustainability of pastoral production, rangeland enclosures as an innovative response or as erosion of resources in southern Oromia, Ethiopia, pastoralists and irrigation in the Horn of Africa and especially in the Awash Valley, and the consequences of climate change for pastoralism; 2. Commercialization and markets (chapters on commercialization, growth, and destitution in the Horn, camel export market opportunities on the Kenya/Ethiopia borderlands, private sector involvement in Ethiopian livestock exports and sleeping sickness control in Uganda, and camel milk marketing in the Somali region of Ethiopia); 3. Land and conflict (chapters on the future of the pastoralist conflict in the Horn of Africa, land grabbing in the eastern African rangelands, land deals and livelihoods in Tanzania, changing resources tenure and pastoralist innovation on the Laikipia Plateau of Kenya, mobile pastoralism and land grabbing in Sudan, and the need to strengthen land law in Ethiopia to protect pastoral rights); 4. Alternative livelihoods (chapters on alternative livelihoods in pastoral areas, distance-learning for pastoralists in Kenya, social protection for pastoralists, and women and diversification in pastoralist societies). The chapter in the fifth part offers reflections on the future of pastoralism in the Horn of Africa. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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