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Custodians of the commons: pastoral land tenure in East and West Africa
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ISBN: 1853834734 9781853834738 Year: 1998 Publisher: London Earthscan


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Pastoralism in Africa : past, present, and future
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ISBN: 9780857459084 0857459082 0857459090 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Berghahn,

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Pastoralism has shaped livelihoods and landscapes on the African continent for millennia. Mobile livestock husbandry has generally been portrayed as an economic strategy that successfully met the challenges of low biomass productivity and environmental variability in arid and semi-arid environments. This volume focuses on the emergence, diversity, and inherent dynamics of pastoralism in Africa based on research during a twelve-year period on the southwest and northeast regions. Unraveling the complex prehistory, history, and contemporary political ecology of African pastoralism, results in in

Managing mobility in African rangelands : the legitimization of transhumance
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ISBN: 1853394734 9251042977 9789251042977 Year: 1999 Publisher: London Intermediate Technology


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Pastoralism and development in Africa : dynamic change at the margins
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ISBN: 0415540712 0415540720 1136255850 1283861933 0203105974 1136255842 9780415540711 9780415540728 Year: 2013 Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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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 ci

The pastoral continuum : the marginalization of tradition in East Africa
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ISBN: 0198233752 9780198233756 Year: 1997 Volume: *5 Publisher: Oxford New York Clarendon Press Oxford University Press

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