The “new pastoral commons” of Eastern and Southern Africa

Bollig, Michael; Lesorogol, Carolyn

doi:10.18352/ijc.771

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“…Recent scholarship on pastoralism has benefitted from shifting its focus away from traditional views of pastoral economics to more modern approaches that incorporate the important links between globalization, local markets, migration, economic opportunities, and traditional pastoral livelihoods (Bollig and Lesorogol 2016;Bond 2014;Catley et al 2013;Galaty 2016;Gertel and LeHeron 2011;Jandreau and Berkes 2016;Kibet et al 2016;Mwangi 2016;Watson et al 2016). These new opportunities have subsequently generated new behavioural adaptations and economic strategies that require us to reclassify many of the livelihood tactics and approaches used by modern pastoralists we presented in Table 1.…”

Section: New Modes Of Scholarship On Pastoralismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pastoralist societies in flux: A conceptual framework analysis of herding and land use among the Mukugodo Maasai of Kenya

Hauck

Rubenstein

2017

Pastoralism

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Pastoral livelihoods are evolving rapidly. The emergence of globalized markets and the integration of globalized production in developing countries have forced many pastoralists, along with the rest of the world's consumers, to shift their economic strategies of production to accommodate these evolving markets. The objective of this paper is to illustrate the relationship between globalization and apparent transformations in pastoralist behaviour in recent years. We specifically focus on the links among climate, land use, and herding in rural northern Kenya. To do this, we use a novel conceptual framework that incorporates both traditional interactions between pastoral ecology and resource generation and modern opportunities by linking pastoral families via their pastoral production and other economic activities to the cash economy, modern diets and nutritional status (health), and public and private assistance and programmes (such as food aid).

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Section: New Modes Of Scholarship On Pastoralismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pastoralist societies in flux: A conceptual framework analysis of herding and land use among the Mukugodo Maasai of Kenya

Hauck

Rubenstein

2017

Pastoralism

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“…al. 2016. Recently, Bollig and Lesorogol (2016) edited an exploration of the idea of a "new commons." They point out that the new commons are based on the view that natural resources should be commodified to the benefit of rural resource users and that they require a negotiation between the older forms of commons management and new forms.…”

Section: Common Property and Institutional Changementioning

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The Emergence of the Village and the Transformation of Traditional Institutions: A Case Study from Northern Tanzania

McCabe¹,

Leslie²,

Davis³

2020

Human Organization

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In this paper, we examine how the 2008–2009 drought in northern Tanzania contributed to and catalyzed the transformation of governance concerning the management of natural resources from traditional informal institutions among the Maasai to formal village-based institutions. Our central argument is that village governance in northern Tanzania represents a new, formal institution that is supplementing and in some important ways obviating traditional, informal institutions. Further, this replacement is central to what appears to be a transformation of the social-ecological system embracing the rangelands and pastoral/agro-pastoral people in northern Tanzania. In this paper, we document the basis for our claims concerning the institutional shift and discuss its implications for livelihoods and social relationships.

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“…The opposition between Hardin (1968) and Ostrom (1990) over the so-called "tragedy of commons" established rangelands as a canonical example of commons. It is true that access to wells in some semi-arid areas may be regarded as commons (Thébaud et Batterbury 2001), and that some authors acknowledge the existence of "new pastoral commons" (Bollig et Lesorogol 2016). Nevertheless, in many cases access to pastoral resources does not reflect the canonic definition of commons: a community, a resource, and a governance institution.…”

Section: Open Property: An Under-studied Property Regimementioning

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Dynamics of Access to Pastoral Resources in a Farming Area (Western Burkina Faso): Unveiling Rights in Open Access Regimes

Gonin¹,

Filoche²,

Delville³

2019

International Journal of the Commons

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Several misunderstandings obscure the understanding of access to pastoral resources in farming areas of West Africa. Firstly, pastoral resources are often considered as commons, whereas they are mostly based on open access. Secondly, these open access regimes are understudied and suffer from a poor understanding of what is a "right" in such regimes. This is an important issue, because grazing resources are disappearing in farming regions while fields for crops are extending, and because herders' rights do not protect them from this adverse change in land use. Grounded on field work in western Burkina Faso, this article specifies herders' rights of access in the area by drawing upon the concepts forged by Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld (1913). This American legal scholar sees rights as a relational issue, not as individual or collective entitlements. His analytical framework has been influential since the beginning of the 20th century and proves to be relevant to highlight farmers-herders relations. The article demonstrates that herders benefit from liberty of access rather than rights in the strictest sense of the word. Access to pastoral resources is weak because herders are subject to farmers' power to change their land use from pastoral to agricultural.

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The “new pastoral commons” of Eastern and Southern Africa

Cited by 48 publications

References 25 publications

Pastoralist societies in flux: A conceptual framework analysis of herding and land use among the Mukugodo Maasai of Kenya

Pastoralist societies in flux: A conceptual framework analysis of herding and land use among the Mukugodo Maasai of Kenya

The Emergence of the Village and the Transformation of Traditional Institutions: A Case Study from Northern Tanzania

Dynamics of Access to Pastoral Resources in a Farming Area (Western Burkina Faso): Unveiling Rights in Open Access Regimes

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