Sustainable Pastoralism And Rangelands In Africa

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Sustainable pastoralism and rangelands in Africa by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

This edition of Nature & Faune journal explores the intricacies of sustainable pastoralism and rangeland management in Africa. It contains articles on the realities of livestock production in Africa, including: extensive rangeland conditions; rangeland ecosystems and sustainability; wildlife benefits and conflicts in pastoral systems; land tenure systems in pastoral settings, forest feed for livestock; animal disease control; agro-silvo-pastoralism; and impact of livestock on water and soil degradation. This lends support to the initiative of encouraging the United Nations to designate 2020 the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists.

Author : Pedro M. Herrera,Jonathan Davies,Pablo Manzano Baena
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317665168

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The Governance of Rangelands by Pedro M. Herrera,Jonathan Davies,Pablo Manzano Baena Pdf

Rangelands are large natural landscapes that can include grasslands, shrublands, savannahs and woodlands. They are greatly influenced by, and often dependent on, the action of herbivores. In the majority of rangelands the dominant herbivores are found in domestic herds that are managed by mobile pastoralists. Most pastoralists manage their rangelands communally, benefitting from the greater flexibility and seasonal resource access that common property regimes can offer. As this book shows, this creates a major challenge for governance and institutions. This work improves our understanding of the importance of governance, how it can be strengthened and the principles that underpin good governance, in order to prevent degradation of rangelands and ensure their sustainability. It describes the nature of governance at different levels: community governance, state governance, international governance, and the unique features of rangelands that demand collective action (issues of scale, ecological disequilibrium and seasonality). A series of country case studies is presented, drawn from a wide spectrum of examples from Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, Europe and North America. These provide contrasting lessons which are summarised to promote improved governance of rangelands and pastoralist livelihoods.

Author : David John Pratt,François Le Gall,C. de Haan
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821339435

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Investing in Pastoralism by David John Pratt,François Le Gall,C. de Haan Pdf

World Bank Technical Paper No. 365.The World Bank has been supporting range livestock development since the 1960s, gaining experience that currently contributes to best practices in natural resource management (NRM) in pastoral areas. This report focuses on NRM in the arid rangelands used by pastoralists in Africa and the Middle East, offering guidelines for development. An introductory chapter on the nature of NRM is followed by advice on preparing for project intervention and by guidelines for specific project components. A concluding chapter considers the broader implications for international agencies, particularly the World Bank. Eight annexes provide additional background information and advice, as well as a user guide for practitioners.

Author : Andy Catley,Jeremy Lind,Ian Scoones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136255847

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Pastoralism and Development in Africa by Andy Catley,Jeremy Lind,Ian Scoones Pdf

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 geopolitics and conflict, to aid agency failures, and more. But it is not all disaster and catastrophe. Many successful development efforts at ‘the margins’ often remain hidden, informal, sometimes illegal; and rarely in line with standard development prescriptions. If we shift our gaze from the capital cities to the regional centres and their hinterlands, then a very different perspective emerges. These are the places where pastoralists live. They have for centuries struggled with drought, conflict and famine. They are resourceful, entrepreneurial and innovative peoples. Yet they have been ignored and marginalised by the states that control their territory and the development agencies who are supposed to help them. This book argues that, while we should not ignore the profound difficulties of creating secure livelihoods in the Greater Horn of Africa, there is much to be learned from development successes, large and small. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars with an interest in development studies and human geography, with a particular emphasis on Africa. It will also appeal to development policy-makers and practitioners.

Author : Ian Scoones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Livestock
ISBN : IND:30000009693080

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Sustainable Pastoralism in Africa by Ian Scoones Pdf

Author : Mary Kirkbride
Publisher : Oxfam
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781848146327

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Survival of the Fittest: Pastoralism and climate change in East Africa by Mary Kirkbride Pdf

Author : Maryam Niamir-Fuller
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028789373

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Managing Mobility in African Rangelands by Maryam Niamir-Fuller Pdf

This book shows how land tenure laws, decentralization policies, institutional capactiy building, common property management, conflict resolution and participatory development can be made more responsive to the needs of pastoralists and those practising transhumance today in order to achieve ecologically and economically sustainable development in arid Africa. The scope of this book is holistic: social, economic, political and environmental issues are discussed in each contribution. The case studies focus on four key constraints to managed mobility: appropriate legislation; and conflict resolution. The case studies are from Africa, but the issues and conclusions are just as relevant to pastoralism and common property management in other continents. Scientists, students, development experts, government officials and bilateral and multi-lateral development organizations will find new research presented in this book that is highly relevant to their work.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251308981

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Pastoralism in Africa’s drylands by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

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.

Author : Yanda, Pius Zebhe,Mung'ong'o, Claude Gasper
Publisher : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789987753925

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Pastoralism and Climate Change in East Africa by Yanda, Pius Zebhe,Mung'ong'o, Claude Gasper Pdf

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.

Author : Michele Nori,Michael Taylor,Alessandra Sensi
Publisher : IIED
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Arid regions
ISBN : 9781843697015

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Browsing on Fences by Michele Nori,Michael Taylor,Alessandra Sensi Pdf

Author : Ced Hesse,James MacGregor
Publisher : IIED
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Arid regions
ISBN : 9781843696377

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Pastoralism by Ced Hesse,James MacGregor Pdf

Many policy makers in East Africa have preconceptions about the value of pastoralism as a land-use system believing it to be economically inefficient and environmentally destructive. Yet, this is not evidence-based. Not only is there no consensus on what is a dynamic economic model of pastoralism, no mechanisms exist to inform government decision-making of its comparative advantages over alternative land uses. This paper argues that pastoralism does make a significant contribution to society and that, with better understanding, planning and data collection, its value can be demonstrated. The paper presents a preliminary framework for assessing the benefits of pastoralism that goes beyond conventional criteria relating to livestock and their by-products. While the paper focuses on East Africa, much of the analysis is applicable to pastoral systems in other regions of Africa.

Author : Z.A. Konczacki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136277047

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The Economics of Pastoralism by Z.A. Konczacki Pdf

The economics and future of pastoralism in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Author : Roy H. Behnke,Ian Scoones,Carol Kerven
Publisher : Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016208469

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Range Ecology at Disequilibrium by Roy H. Behnke,Ian Scoones,Carol Kerven Pdf

Author : Gilbert Duran,Harold Fred Kaiser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Range management
ISBN : UIUC:30112019255162

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Range Management Practices: Investment Costs, 1970 by Gilbert Duran,Harold Fred Kaiser Pdf

Definitions of the 18 range management practices used in the Forest-Range Environmental Study (FRES) and lists of investment costs for each practice in each of 956 resource units of forest-range found within 34 major ecosystems. Values were determined from published and unpublished sources and from experience of USDA Forest Service experts in this field.

Author : Sabine Homann
Publisher : Cuvillier Verlag
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Agricultural systems
ISBN : 9783865373830

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Indigenous Knowledge of Borana Pastoralists in Natural Resource Management by Sabine Homann Pdf