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Pastoralism and socio-technological transformations in Northern Benin: Fulani innovations in pastoral migration, livelihood diversification and professional association
In: Göttingen series in social and cultural anthropology Volume 10
Pastoralists throughout Africa face increasing pressures. In Benin, governmental development policies and programmes in crop farming are changing power relations between herders and farmers to favour the latter. How are the Fulani pastoralists responding to these threats to their existence? Georges Djohy explores the dynamics in local use of natural resources and in inter-ethnic relations resulting from development interventions. He combines the approaches of science and technology studies – looking at the co-construction of society and technology – and political ecology – looking at the power relations shaping the dynamics of economic, environmental and social change – so as to throw light on the forces of marginalisation, adaptation and innovation at work in northern Benin. Having worked there for many years, Djohy has been able to uncover gradual processes of socio-technological change that are happening "behind the scenes" of agricultural development involving mechanisation, herbicide use, tree planting, land registration and natural resource conservation. He reveals how farmers are using these interventions as "weapons" in order to gain more rights over larger areas of land, in other words, to support indigenous land grabbing from herders who had been using the land since decades for grazing. He documents how the Fulani are innovating to ensure their survival, e.g. by using new technologies for transport and communication, developing new strategies of livestock feeding and herd movement, and developing complementary sources of household income. The Fulani are organising themselves from local to national level to provide technological and socio-cultural services, manage conflicts and gain a stronger political voice, e.g. to be able to achieve demarcation of corridors for moving livestock through cultivated areas. They even use non-functioning mini-dairies – another example of development intervention – to demonstrate their modernity and to open up other opportunities to transform their pastoral systems. This book provides insights into normally hidden technical and social dynamics that are unexpected outcomes of development interventions.
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Socio-economics of Bedouin farming systems in dry areas of Northern Syria
In: Farming systems and resource economics in the tropics, Vol. 24
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Dürren, Krieg und Hungerkrisen bei den Kel Ewey (1900 - 1985)
In: Studien zur Kulturkunde 89
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The economics of Cain and Abel: Agro-pastoral property rights in the Sahel
In: The journal of development studies: JDS, Band 31, Heft 3, S. 373-399
ISSN: 0022-0388
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Environmental variability in the Sahel and its constraints on animal husbandry
In: Forum for utviklingsstudier, Heft 2, S. 215-228
ISSN: 0332-8244
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Nomads of Luristan: history, material culture, and pastoralism in Western Iran
In: The Carlsberg Foundation's Nomad Research Project
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Central Asians under Russian rule: a study in culture change
In: Cornell studies in anthropology
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Ranching, common property relations and the alienation of pastoral lands in Uganda: a study of the Buruli ranching scheme
In: ALARM Working Paper, No. 10
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Traditionelle Tierhaltung im Sudan unter heutigen Bedingungen
In: Diskussionspapiere, No. 11
Der Bericht stellt die Auswirkungen der veränderten natürlichen und rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen auf die traditionelle Tierhaltung in der Butana, Sudan dar. Die wichtigsten Veränderungen sind: (1) die Ausdehnung des Bewässerungs- und Regenfeldbaus, (2) die Abschaffung des traditionellen Bodenrechtssystems, (3) Dürren und Degradationen der natürlichen Weiden und (4) veränderte Ziele und Bedürfnisse der Tierhalter. (DÜI-Hff)
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L'agriculture traditionnelle itinerante comme menace de l'environnement forestier: Quelles solutions?
In: Africa development: a quarterly journal of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa = Afrique et développement, Band 23, Heft 2, S. 85-97
ISSN: 0850-3907
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Tubes, tenure and turbulence: the effects of drought related migration on tenure issues and resource management in Northern Senegal
In: Anthropology and development 5
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