The Economics of Pastoralism

A Case Study of Sub-Saharan Africa

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3911577
AutoresP H Gulliver, Z A Konczacki
Año1979
Volumen12
Número4
Páginas753
Fecha de publicación1979-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe International Journal of African Historical Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0361-7882 • E-ISSN: 2326-3016
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/218107
OpenAlexW412177062
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16

Part 1 Introduction. Part 2 A socio-economic framework of pastoralism: preamble an idealized model of a pastoral economy a realistic model of a pastoral sector conclusions. Part 3 Livestock-capital, range and the people: livestock as capital and problems of its accumulation trade in livestock and the distribution of its ownership rangeland and its management sedentarization - a partial solution. Part 4 Pastoral nomadism -the case of Somalia: land, people and their livelihood livestock commercialization of the pastoral sector development planning and the nomads. Part 5 The Sahelian drought: the drought and demography the MIT report comparison and assessment of Caldwell's and Picardi's approaches a third point of view. Part 6 Transhumance - the case of Botswana: the development of trade in livestock Botswana's development programmes - a reassessment national policy on tribal grazing land. Part 7 Some speculations on the prospects of the pastoral mode of production: the alternatives proposal for pastoral reform is it worth it? conclusions appendices

Development economics · Economics · Geography · Livestock · Pastoralism · Political science · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Animal Diversity and Health Studies · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology · Forestry