5. The role of social networks, indefinite boundaries and political bargaining in maintaining the ecological and economic resilience of the transhumance systems of Sudano-Sahelian West Africa

Turner, Matthew D.; Niamir‐Fuller, Maryam

doi:10.3362/9781780442761.005

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“…Specifically, the NOMAD avoids tsetse flies by staying around highland areas in the north during the rainy season, and it flees impending droughts into more humid southern areas as the dry season progresses. These features are highly consistent with the widely recorded movement patterns of Fulani herdsmen in West Africa (Bassett, 1986;Stenning, 1957;Turner, 1999;Bassett & Turner, 2007). Although the particular snapshot in Figure 3 was taken after 5000 updates of ROUTE, it does not generally take long to see the first emergence of such a pattern of movement.…”

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Mobility and Sustainability: A Computational Model of African Pastoralists

Sakamoto¹

2016

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This article offers a simple computational model of mobile pastoralists. Employing an agent-based modeling (ABM) approach, the model explicitly simulates the movement patterns of pastoralists and computes the resultant natural resource access for a landscape that shows the typically unpredictable dynamics of African rangeland ecology. Extensive simulations reveal a striking level of efficiency in the exploitation of resource endowments that mobile pastoralists can achieve in otherwise inhospitable environments. The simulations also illuminate the serious welfare consequences of the disruption of pastoral mobility under tight land constraints. These quantitative results are consistent with the rich qualitative evidence from the empirical literature on African pastoralism. Moreover, the article reports on several sets of 'policy experiments' that evaluate the effect of rangeland interventions on the mobility and livelihoods of pastoralists. These endeavors will pave the way for empirically richer and more policy-relevant analyses of dryland pastoralism.

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Mobility and Sustainability: A Computational Model of African Pastoralists

Sakamoto¹

2016

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“…The Lake Chad Basin Committee (LCBC), for example, governs and supports livestock mobility at national and international levels within the Chad Basin (Moritz et al 2013a). The challenge will be to find the right balance to solve the ''paradox of pastoral land tenure' ' (Ferná ndez-Giménez 2002), which is that pastoralists need secure access to pasture and water, but also flexibility in resource use, i.e., the ability to move elsewhere because of spatiotemporal variation in resource availability (Niamir-Fuller 1999;Turner 1999). Pastoralists' rights to common-pool grazing resources should be protected at the highest institutional levels, but there should be enough flexibility at the local levels for herders, farmers, and authorities to find efficient and low-cost solutions for competing land uses without threatening pastoral mobility at the larger spatial scales.…”

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Ideal Free Distributions of Mobile Pastoralists in Multiple Seasonal Grazing Areas

Moritz

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Rangeland Ecology & Management

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“…The rigid boundaries and neat land-use zones make the landscape much more legible and manageable (for conservation officials) than the 'buzzing complexity and plasticity' of customary tenure negotiations (Scott, 1998). In the process, however, much of the intricate institutional frameworks co-ordinating local resource management systems is lost (Leach et al, 1999;Turner, 1999b). The codification of land ownership and use contradicts more flexible 'customary' laws often applied to land-tenure negotiations (Leach et al, 1999;Neumann, 1997).…”

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Partitioned Nature, Privileged Knowledge: Community‐based Conservation in Tanzania

Goldman

2003

Development and Change

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Community Based Conservation (CBC) has become the catch-all solution to the social and ecological problems plaguing traditional top-down, protectionist conservation approaches. CBC has been particularly popular throughout Africa as a way to gain local support for wildlife conservation measures that have previously excluded local people and their development needs. This article shows that, despite the rhetoric of devolution and participation associated with new CBC models, conservation planning in Tanzania remains a top-down endeavour, with communities and their specialized socio-ecological knowledge delegated to the margins. In addition to the difficulties associated with the transfer of power from state to community hands, CBC also poses complex challenges to the culture or institution of conservation. Using the example of the Tarangire-Manyara ecosystem, the author shows how local knowledge and the complexities of ecological processes challenge the conventional zone-based conservation models, and argues that the insights of local Maasai knowledge claims could better reflect the ecological and social goals of the new CBC rhetoric.

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5. The role of social networks, indefinite boundaries and political bargaining in maintaining the ecological and economic resilience of the transhumance systems of Sudano-Sahelian West Africa

Cited by 62 publications

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Mobility and Sustainability: A Computational Model of African Pastoralists

Mobility and Sustainability: A Computational Model of African Pastoralists

Ideal Free Distributions of Mobile Pastoralists in Multiple Seasonal Grazing Areas

Partitioned Nature, Privileged Knowledge: Community‐based Conservation in Tanzania

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