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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    July, 2010
    Tajikistan

    This paper looks at how recent economic and legal changes have affected pasture management and property rights in Tajikistan. Firstly, current trends in livestock numbers and mobility are compared with those of the Soviet period. Secondly, the impact of current land legislation is investigated using 2007 field data from two sites in the Gorno-Badakhshan region of the country. We describe the extent to which pasture at these sites is under private, community or state control and discuss the implications for sustainable management of this resource.

  2. Library Resource
    January, 2000

    This article discusses what is the best means of managing the commons. The article stresses that these are critical questions in the current wave of decentralisation and tenure reform taking place in many Sahelian states.

  3. Library Resource
    January, 2001
    Italy, Europe

    This article discusses the transhumant pastoralists of the Abruzzo highlands of central Italy. The article indicates that this system of production depended, and still depends, on the availability of communal grazing areas where access is open to all local residents and management is joint. The article discusses the relationship between herders, common property regimes and the State.The article concludes that:as a pastoral system increases in complexity, from being a self contained CPR to an outward-looking one, with moveable assets and flocks, transaction costs increase.

  4. Library Resource
    January, 2002

    For over a hundred years the zone of Kisha Beiga, in Burkina Faso, was plagued by ethnic conflicts, revolution and political anarchy. Local rivalries and administrative chaos put paid to any efforts to manage natural resources efficiently. Then, in 1991, the Burkinabe Sahel Programme (PSB) set out to quell factional rivalry and establish sustainable resource-management in the area. A fragile consensus has been achieved, but it has not been easy. Leadership conflicts, land tenure issues and administrative anomalies have threatened to derail the project.

  5. Library Resource
    January, 2002

    Since the early 1970s, the position of pastoralists in West Africa's Sahel zone has become ever more precarious. Their plight is evidenced by rural-urban migration movements as well as the results of field surveys. The last major drought of 1983-1985 delivered a major blow to communities which derive most of their food and revenues from herding. In many rangeland areas there is civil unrest - even building to armed conflict in places - owing to mounting tensions between various pastoral groups.

  6. Library Resource
    January, 2000

    This paper initially highlights the general characteristics of rangelands and pastoral production systems of the Tibetan Plateau.The article finds that:given the realities of life in a heterogeneous and marginal environment, the issue of secure resource tenure, both customary and legal, is fundamental for effective rangeland managementa simple shift in tenure from the communal (traditional and subsistence) to individual household level (ranching and commercial) will not be enough to facilitate a change in behaviour toward "rational" livestock operationsmany institutional mechanisms must be

  7. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    July, 2008
    Ethiopia

    The major economic activity for pastoralists is animal husbandry. The harshenvironment in which herders raise their livestock requires constant mobility toregulate resource utilization via a common property regime. In contrast to themobile way of life characterizing pastoralism, agriculture as a sedentary activity isonly marginally present in the lowlands of the Afar regional state in Ethiopia.Nevertheless, this study reveals a situation where the traditional land–usearrangements in Afar are being transformed due to the introduction of farming.

  8. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2008
    Global

    There is growing degradation in sylvo-pastoral lands that were originally under common property regimes, but over which the state now asserts ownership. User associations are being given the right to take charge of regulating how these areas are sustainably exploited by means of use agreements, and are proving an effective instrument in halting the degradation process.

  9. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Ethiopia

    The majority of Ethiopians depend on
    medical plants as their only source of health care,
    especially in rural areas where access to villages is
    lacking due to the absence of vehicular roads. The
    increasing scarcity of medicinal plant species represents a
    trend that should be immediately addressed. The health and
    drug policies of the Ethiopian Ministry of Health recognize
    the important role medical plants and traditional health

  10. Library Resource
    August, 2012

    Participatory community-based Natural
    Resources Management (NRM) Projects have been implemented
    over the last 5-6 years in Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, and
    Niger with the support of France, Germany, Norway, the
    United States, and the World Bank's International
    Development Association facility. Furthermore, pilot
    operation concentrating on specific NRM issues are underway
    in Chad (pastoral perimeters) and Guinea (land tenure

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