Shift in herders’ territorialities from regional to local scale: the political ecology of pastoral herding in western Burkina Faso

Gonin, Alexis; Gautier, Denis

doi:10.1186/s13570-015-0023-z

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“…Agricultural policies in most SSA countries have traditionally focused on private crop-based agriculture. Policies on dryland agriculture, and especially on pastoralism, have been lacking and/ or neglected (Gonin & Gautier, 2015;Goodhue & McCarthy, 2009). Traditional land tenure in pastoralist systems is often described as 'fuzzy' (Goodhue & McCarthy, 2009;Mwangi & Dohrn, 2008), meaning different things at different times, for different resources, under different conditions and for different groups of people.…”

Section: Policies and Tenurementioning

confidence: 99%

Enclosures as a land management tool for food security in African drylands

Nyberg

Mureithi

Muricho

et al. 2019

Journal of Land Use Science

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Increasing sedentary agro-pastoralist livelihoods may be explained by land degradation, population pressure, agricultural commodification, and economic development. We reviewed scientific and 'grey' literature for the effects of enclosures on food security. Only 8% of the 114 reviewed scientific articles addressed food production, while 69% approached environmental parameters that indirectly affect food security, most of which had positive results. Thirty-one percent focused on social and economic impacts, land tenure conflicts and elite capture with negative connotations. The 'grey' literature showed an opposite balance between positive environmental views and negative socioeconomic impacts. Enclosures are not a panacea for dryland development, but their use need to be recognized and understood. Multidisciplinary research and cooperation on the applied management of enclosures in the context of food security is highly needed. Furthermore, agro-pastoralist land-use practices need more policy space and practical management support, such as clear tenure legislation, agroforestry methodologies, and support in fodder production systems.

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Section: Policies and Tenurementioning

confidence: 99%

Enclosures as a land management tool for food security in African drylands

Nyberg

Mureithi

Muricho

et al. 2019

Journal of Land Use Science

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“…Poor or marginalized groups are more prone to using violence when faced with difficult climatic situations because of a lack of opportunity and also a feeling of injustice, as demonstrated by a meta‐analysis (of the whole continent of Africa) . The links between droughts and conflicts are the subject of debate: for example, conflicts can be explained by structural factors (e.g., agricultural encroachment on pastoral lands and political corruption), which are the same factors that affect people already vulnerable to droughts …”

Section: Impacts Of Droughtmentioning

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Impacts of drought and responses of rural populations in West Africa: a systematic review

Gautier

Denis

Locatelli

2016

WIREs Climate Change

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International audienceIn West Africa, climate variations and droughts have always affected livelihoods but have also triggered adaptation strategies. A better understanding of the impacts of drought and the responses of West African populations is indispensable for researchers and decision makers in the current and future context of multiple socioeconomic and environmental changes, including climate change. We conducted a systematic review of the literature on drought in West Africa. In this paper, we highlight controversial issues and identify knowledge gaps. Although drought has been widely considered as a major problem in West Africa, there is a need to frame it within a set of multiple threats faced by local populations and to understand how droughts act as a trigger in economic, societal, and environmental contexts. The literature on responses to drought focuses on agricultural and individual responses, while diversification, migration, and tree-based or livestock-based responses are less frequently addressed. More research is needed on the effectiveness and on the unexpected effects of responses of populations, states, and NGOs, as well as on the interactions between different responses. To understand the complexity of impacts and responses, the context in which they occur and how individual and collective actions interact within households or communities needs to be taken into account. Ecosystems and agriculture offer many goods and services that are suitable for adaptation and the different landscape components should be analyzed together. Such historical, contextual, and integrated analyses would better inform new policies and projects for adaptation to climate change

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“…This interrogation is raised because of the increased challenges to which mobile herding is gradually confronted in West Africa. Among challenges there are the reduction of grazing land size [12]- [20], the obstruction of livestock routes [21], the reduction of watering points, the qualitative and quantitative decline in forage biomass [21] [22] [23] [24] and the recrudescence of conflicts between land users. These challenges affect livestock production and reproduction performance and finally the livelihoods of pastoral communities.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate Variability Adaptation Strategies: Challenges to Livestock Mobility in South-Eastern Burkina Faso

Sanou¹,

Tsado²,

Kiema³

et al. 2018

OALib

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This research work aims to study the perceptions of pastoralists and agropastoralists on climate change impacts on mobile herding and the effectiveness of herders' adaptive strategies within Kompienga Province, south-eastern region of Burkina Faso. In order to achieve this aim, survey data were retrieved from 271 respondents and analysed. From respondents' perceptions, climate change is real and is negatively affecting forage availability (in quality and quantity); livestock production and reproduction performances; herders' practices, their livelihoods and the cohabitation of herding and crop farming. To overcome the increasing constraints the pastoral herding is facing, sound and urgent actions need to be undertaken by Burkina Faso government. These actions include: 1) providing the grazing reserves with necessary facilities such as perennial reservoirs; 2) conducting research to improve breeds that would adapt to current climatic conditions; 3) encouraging and supporting gradual shift of herders from mobile herding to the sedentary breeding; 4) supporting and organizing forage production by farmers. At short term an effective cross-border framework could be created to seek for sound solutions to secure the mobility of herds within ECOWAS territory.

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Shift in herders’ territorialities from regional to local scale: the political ecology of pastoral herding in western Burkina Faso

Cited by 24 publications

References 55 publications

Enclosures as a land management tool for food security in African drylands

Enclosures as a land management tool for food security in African drylands

Impacts of drought and responses of rural populations in West Africa: a systematic review

Climate Variability Adaptation Strategies: Challenges to Livestock Mobility in South-Eastern Burkina Faso

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