Survival on Meagre Resources

Survival on Meagre Resources
Author: Leif O. Manger
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1996
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789171063861

Summarizes research carried out under the Red Sea Area Programme, started in 1987. Describes the physical environment of the area and discusses ways in which the Hadendowa people exploit their mountain environment. Focuses on the establishment and working of adaptive units within the population. Discusses the effects of drought in the 1980s and examines strategies for survival and for pastoral rehabilitation.

Pastoralism

Pastoralism
Author: Ced Hesse
Publisher: IIED
Total Pages: 45
Release: 2006
Genre: Arid regions
ISBN: 1843696371

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.

Conflicts Between Farmers and Herders in North-western Mali

Conflicts Between Farmers and Herders in North-western Mali
Author: Sabrina Beeler
Publisher: IIED
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2006
Genre: Arid regions
ISBN: 1843696355

This study was carried out by the Helvetas Mali development programme whose aim was to improve relations between farmers and herders in a context of pressure on natural resources and growing competition over their use in the regions of Kaarta and Fuladugu, Mali. The Pastoral Charter and other legal frameworks are discussed, as well as mechanisms for conflict resolution and participation.

The Education of Nomadic Peoples

The Education of Nomadic Peoples
Author: Caroline Dyer
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2006-06-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1789203937

Educational provision for nomadic peoples is a highly complex, as well as controversial and emotive, issue. For centuries, nomadic peoples educated their children by passing on from generation to generation the socio-cultural and economic knowledge required to pursue their traditional occupations. But over the last few decades, nomadic peoples have had to contend with rapid changes to their ways of life, often as a consequence of global patterns of development that are highly unsympathetic to spatially mobile groups. The need to provide modern education for nomadic groups is evident and urgent to all those concerned with achieving Education For All; yet how they can be included is highly controversial. This volume provides a series of international case studies, prefaced by a comprehensive literature review and concluding with an end note drawing themes together, that sets out key issues in relation to educational services for nomadic groups around the world.

Information on Land

Information on Land
Author: Pierre-Yves Le Meur
Publisher: IIED
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2008
Genre: Arid regions
ISBN: 1843696908