Pastoralism and Development in Africa Dynamic Change at the Margins

• Main Authors: Catley, Andy, Lind, Jeremy, Scoones, Ian
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2013; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Pathways to Sustainability
• Subjects: 1999-2009; Absatzmarkt; Afar Regional State; Africa, Eastern; Africa, Eastern > Economic conditions; African Studies; Applied ecology; Beispielhafte Fälle; Biodiversity; Boden (Produktionsfaktor); Bodenpolitik; Business; Business & Economics; Climate Change; Conservation; Conservation of the environment; Development; Development Geography; Development Studies; District Veterinary; District Veterinary Office; Dry Season Grazing; Dry Season Grazing Area; drylands; Dürre; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; Economic conditions; Economic Development; Economic development > Africa, Eastern; Economic development > Horn of Africa; Economics; Economics of specific sectors; Economics, Finance, Business and Management; Entwicklung; Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten/Entwicklungsalternativen; Environment law; Environment, transport and planning law: general; Environmental Economics; Environmental Policy; Environmental policy and protocols; Environmental Politics; Environmental Studies; Ethiopia; Geography; Group Ranches; Herders; Herders > Africa, Eastern > Economic conditions; Herders > Horn of Africa > Economic conditions; Horn of Africa; Horn of Africa > Economic conditions; Human geography; Humangeographie; Il Chamus; Interdisciplinary studies; International Relations; irrigation; Kenya; Klimawandel; Konflikt; Laikipia Plateau; Landnahme; Landwirtschaft; Law; Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law; livestock-keepers; Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Nomaden; Nonfiction; Nordostafrika; North Eastern Kenya; Ostafrika; Pastoral Areas; Pastoral Land Rights; Pastoral systems; Pastoral systems > Africa, Eastern; Pastoral systems > Horn of Africa; Pastoralism; PLI; Political Science; Politics; Politics and government; Public Policy; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Regional / International studies; Regional geography; Society and Social Sciences; Somali Region; South Sudan; Soziale Lage; Subsahara-Afrika; Sudan; Sustainability; Sustainable development; The environment; Tierhaltung; Viehwirtschaft; Wealthier Herders; Wirtschaftliche Rahmenbedingungen; Young Men; Africa, Eastern; Horn of Africa; Afar Regional State; North Eastern Kenya; Environmental policy; Livestock Exporters; Conservation; Sudan; drylands; Il Chamus; Biodiversity; PLI; Sustainable development; livestock-keepers; Pastoral Areas; District Veterinary Office; irrigation; Pastoral Land Rights; Laikipia Plateau; Group Ranches; Sustainability; livestock; Young Men; Environmental studies; District Veterinary; Kenya National Examinations Council; Pastoral Production Systems; PSNP; Somali Region; Poorer Herders; South Sudan; Dry Season Grazing Area; Kenya; HSNP; Horn of Africa; Nomadic Education; CSR Activity; Climate Change; Pastoralism; Dry Season Grazing; Pastoral Land Tenure; Wealthier Herders; Ethiopia

Once again, the Horn of Africa has been in the headlines. And once again the news has been bad: drought, famine, conflict, hunger, suffering and death. The finger of blame has been pointed in numerous directions: to the changing climate, to environmental degradation, to overpopulation, to geopolitic...

Table of Contents:

• Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Development at the margins: pastoralism in the Horn of Africa -- Part I: Resources and production -- Chapter 2: The sustainability of pastoral production in Africa -- Chapter 3: Rangeland enclosures in Southern Oromia, Ethiopia: an innovative response or the erosion of common property resources? -- Chapter 4: Pastoralists and irrigation in the Horn of Africa: time for a rethink? -- Chapter 5: Counting the costs: replacing pastoralism with irrigated agriculture in the Awash Valley -- Chapter 6: Climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa: what consequences for pastoralism? -- Part II: Commercialization and markets -- Chapter 7: Moving up or moving out? Commercialization, growth and destitution in pastoralist areas -- Chapter 8: Pastoralists' innovative responses to new camel export market opportunities on the Kenya/Ethiopia borderlands -- Chapter 9: 'Responsible companies' and African livestock-keepers: helping, teaching but not learning? -- Chapter 10: Town camels and milk villages: the growth of camel milk marketing in the Somali Region of Ethiopia -- Part III: Land and conflict -- Chapter 11: The future of pastoralist conflict in the Horn of Africa -- Chapter 12: Land grabbing in the Eastern African rangelands -- Chapter 13: Land deals and the changing political economy of livelihoods in the Tana Delta, Kenya -- Chapter 14: Squeezed from all sides: changing resource tenure and pastoralist innovation on the Laikipia Plateau, Kenya -- Chapter 15: Mobile pastoralism and land grabbing in Sudan: impacts and responses -- Chapter 16: The need to strengthen land laws in Ethiopia to protect pastoral rights -- Part IV: Alternative livelihoods
• Chapter 17: Seeking alternative livelihoods in pastoral areas -- Chapter 18: Reaching pastoralists with formal education: a distance-learning strategy for Kenya -- Chapter 19: Social protection for pastoralists -- Chapter 20: Women and economic diversification in pastoralist societies: a regional perspective -- Part V: Endpiece -- Chapter 21: Reflections on the future of pastoralism in the Horn of Africa -- References -- Index