The Crisis Of Sahelian Pastoralism
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The Crisis Of Sahelian Pastoralism
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Author : Pierre Hiernaux
language : en
Publisher: ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
Release Date : 1996-01-01
The Crisis Of Sahelian Pastoralism written by Pierre Hiernaux and has been published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-01 with categories.
The Crisis Of Sahelian Pastoralism
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Author : Pierre Hiernaux
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Crisis Of Sahelian Pastoralism written by Pierre Hiernaux and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Grazing categories.
Pastoralism In Africa S Drylands
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Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
language : en
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Release Date : 2018-10-29
Pastoralism In Africa S Drylands written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and has been published by Food & Agriculture Org. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-29 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Pastoral livestock production is crucial to the livelihoods and the economy of Africa’s semiarid regions. It developed 7,000 years ago in response to long-tern climate change. It spread throughout Northern Africa as an adaptation to the rapidly changing and increasingly unpredictable arid climate. It is practiced in an area representing 43% of Africa’s land mass in the different regions of Africa, and in some regions it represents the dominant livelihoods system. It covers 36 countries, stretching from the Sahelian West to the rangelands of Eastern Africa and the Horn and the nomadic populations of Southern Africa, with an estimate of 268 million pastoralists. The mobility of pastoralists exploiting the animal feed resources along different ecological zones represents a flexible response to a dry and increasingly variable environment. It allows pastoral herds to use the drier areas during the wet season and more humid areas during the dry season. It ensures pastoral livestock to access sufficient high-quality grazing and create economic value. The objectives of this report are to investigate the current situation of pastoralism and the vulnerability context in which pastoralism currently functions and to outline the policy, resilience programming, and research areas of intervention to enhance the resilience of pastoral livelihoods systems. Scholarly views of pastoralism’s ecological impact have grown more positive since the early 1990s, when a new understanding of dryland dynamics led to the so-called new rangeland paradigm. The new rangeland paradigm represents a shift in the wider discourse on pastoralism from the earlier debates based on the “tragedy of the commons.” The new rangeland paradigm has provided a more comprehensive understanding of the drylands and shown that mobility is an appropriate strategy to exploit the natural resource base in these areas. In recent decades, the adaptability and mobility of pastoralism in relation to resource variability have been undermined by factors that are embedded in the institutional environment and policy that shape the vulnerability context of pastoralism. The report analyzes five factors that undermine the pastoral livelihoods resilience and the implications of these factors for the viability of pastoralism. On the basis of the analysis of vulnerability contexts that shape pastoralism, the report identifies interventions for increasing pastoral resilience.
Pastoralism And Climate Change In East Africa
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Author : Yanda, Pius Zebhe
language : en
Publisher: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers
Release Date : 2018-08-03
Pastoralism And Climate Change In East Africa written by Yanda, Pius Zebhe and has been published by Mkuki na Nyota Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-03 with Social Science categories.
Pastoralism and Climate Change in East Africa provides systematic and robust empirical investigations on the impact of climate change on pastoral production systems, as well as participating in the ongoing debate over the efficacy of traditional pastoralism. This book is an initial product of the Project Building Knowledge to Support Climate Change Adaptation for Pastoralist Communities in East Africa implemented by the Centre for Climate Change Studies of the University of Dar es Salaam with support from the Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa. Traditional pastoralism has proved to be a resilient and unique system of adaptations in a dynamic process of unpredictable climatic variability and continuous human interactions with the natural environment in dryland ecosystems. Pastoral adaptations and climate-induced innovative coping mechanisms have strategically been embedded in the indigenous social structures and resource management value systems. Pastoral livelihoods have, nevertheless, become increasingly vulnerable to climate change impacts as a result of prolonged marginalization and harmful external interventions. The negative effect of global climate change has been an added dimension to the already prevailing crisis in the pastoral livelihood system, which is substantially driven by non-climatic factors of internal and external pressures of change such as population growth, bad governance and shrinking rangelands lost to competing activities.
Security Crisis In Sahel And Adaptations Of Mobile Pastoralism
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Author : Sarah Lunaček
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024
Security Crisis In Sahel And Adaptations Of Mobile Pastoralism written by Sarah Lunaček and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with categories.
A Political Ecology Of Pastoralism In The Inland Niger Delta Of Mali
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Author : Donald Zhang Osborn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
A Political Ecology Of Pastoralism In The Inland Niger Delta Of Mali written by Donald Zhang Osborn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Fula (African people) categories.
Transborder Pastoral Nomadism And Human Security In Africa
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Author : Richard Olaniyan
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2021-11-29
Transborder Pastoral Nomadism And Human Security In Africa written by Richard Olaniyan and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-29 with Political Science categories.
This book examines the nexus between political borders, pastoral nomadism, and human security in Africa. It uses a host of applied interdisciplinary insights to analyse social, political, and cultural processes, circumstances, and consequences to showcase the human security crisis in the context of climate change, inter-group relations, leadership strategies, institutions, and governance within the region. With a special focus on West Africa and Nigeria, the volume discusses crucial themes that highlight the role of borders in the security architecture of the region which include, • Political economy of herdsmen-farmers’ conflicts in West Africa; • The scarcity-migration perspective of the Sahel region; • Population pressure, urbanization, and nomadic pastoral violence in West Africa; • Human trafficking and kidnapping for ransom in Nigeria; • Drivers of ‘labour’ migration of Fulani herders to Ghana, and other topics. A key contribution to a pressing issue, this volume will be of interest to scholars and students of history, political science, anthropology, geography, international relations, literature, environmental science, and peace and conflict studies.
The End Of Desertification
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Author : Roy H. Behnke
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-12
The End Of Desertification written by Roy H. Behnke and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-12 with Science categories.
The question in the title of this book draws attention to the shortcomings of a concept that has become a political tool of global importance even as the scientific basis for its use grows weaker. The concept of desertification, it can be argued, has ceased to be analytically useful and distorts our understanding of social-environmental systems and their resiliency, particularly in poor countries with variable rainfall and persistent poverty. For better policy and governance, we need to reconsider the scientific justification for international attempts to combat desertification. Our exploration of these issues begins in the Sahel of West Africa, where a series of severe droughts at the end of the 20th century led to the global institutionalization of the idea of desertification. It now seems incontrovertible that these droughts were not caused primarily by local land use mismanagement, effectively terminating a long-standing policy and scientific debate. There is now an opportunity to treat this episode as an object lesson in the relationship between science, the formation of public opinion and international policy-making. Looking beyond the Sahel, the chapters in this book provide case studies from around the world that examine the use and relevance of the desertification concept. Despite an increasingly sophisticated understanding of dryland environments and societies, the uses now being made of the desertification concept in parts of Asia exhibit many of the shortcomings of earlier work done in Africa. It took scientists more than three decades to transform a perceived desertification crisis in the Sahel into a non-event. This book is an effort to critically examine that experience and accelerate the learning process in other parts of the world.
Pastoralism And Conflict In The Horn Of Africa
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Author : Kennedy Mkutu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Pastoralism And Conflict In The Horn Of Africa written by Kennedy Mkutu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Africa, Northeast categories.
The Sahel Crisis And The Need For International Support
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Author : Morten Bøås
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-10-30
The Sahel Crisis And The Need For International Support written by Morten Bøås and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-30 with categories.
The crisis in the Sahel is serious and multidimensional, and if it continues unabated it could have consequences far beyond the region. As the states of the region are too poor and weak to deal with this on their own, international support is needed. the current international emphasis on the G5 Sahel should change from a focus on more 'boots on the ground' to support for the development agenda of this embryonic international organisation. The Sahel needs a functioning regional framework and the G5 Sahel has some potential; but the only way to harvest this potential is to help fine-tune it to address the underlying causes of conflict. Improving security conditions in the Sahel is absolutely essential; but neither the inhabitants of the region nor the external stakeholders will find security exclusively through military means. The correct priorities must be set. And at the heart of this there must be an improvement in living conditions and a new system of governance that makes it much less possible for jihadist insurgents to appropriate local land-rights conflicts.