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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1991Kenya
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 1991Kenya
It is generally acknowledged that
insecure and incomplete property rights have large effects on
the use and management of watershed resources.
The standard policy response to this problem is
to privatize farm land, declare riverine areas
to be public property, and establish a set of
restrictions on the use of both private and pub
lic land. This paper presents a more nuanced
concept of catchment property rights, drawing
upon key concepts from watershed hydrology and
the multidisciplinary social science of property -
Library ResourceJanuary, 1992Kenya, Sub-Saharan Africa
This paper employs an historical analysis to consider some of the consequences of conflicting resource use and political friction on resource exploitation within and outside Turkana District during this century. Given this historical context, development alternatives tested to ameliorate food insecurity are reviewed.The article proposes that the stage for political conflicts, environmental degradation and food insecurity within the region was set decades ago.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1991Kenya, Africa, Eastern Africa
The first chapter gives a brief description of a pastoral production system, as envisaged by the study team and outlines the multi-disciplinary approach of the study, its sampling design and the data collected. Chapters 2 & 3 describe Kenya's biophysical and socio-economic environments, within which the Maasai livestock production system operates. The biophysical environment of the study site is described in detail in Chapter 4. Chapter 5 describes the social organization of the Maasai and how it affects their use of livestock and grazing resources.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1991France, Zambia, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, Australia, Greece, Guinea, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Colombia, Panama, Kenya, Jordan, Philippines, Libya, Italy, Botswana, Netherlands, Argentina, Sudan, Europe, Asia, Africa, Northern America
Extensive grazing is the predominant form of land use on at least a quarter of the world’s land surface, in which livestock are raised on food that comes mainly from rangelands. Extensive grazing differs from crop or forestry production, in which the produce remains in situ whilst growing. Evaluation for extensive grazing, unlike that for cropping or forestry, must take into account the production of both grazing forage, termed primary production, and the livestock that feed on this forage, termed secondary production.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1991Fiji, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Nepal, Israel, Peru, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Bulgaria, Ghana, Congo, Guinea, Niger, Kenya, Yemen, Australia, Tanzania, Ecuador, Argentina, India, Senegal, Chad, China, Togo
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1991Egypt, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Kenya, Israel, Chile, Peru, China, Ethiopia, Republic of Korea, Niger, Thailand, Nepal, Morocco, Philippines, Somalia, Italy, Tanzania, India, Sudan, Brazil
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