Fred Zaal
Biographic Data
| ID | 197999 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fred Zaal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fred |
| FAMILY NAME | Zaal |
| SIGNATURE | ZAAL F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Participatory Assessment of Development Interventions
This article presents the principles and findings of developing a new participatory assessment of development (PADev) evaluation approach that was codesigned with Dutch nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and northern and southern research institutes over a period of 4 years in the context of rural development in Ghana and Burkina Faso. Although participatory approaches in development evaluations have become widely accepted since the 1990s, the …
Climate change, violent conflict and local institutions in Kenya's drylands
Many regions that are endowed with scarce natural resources such as arable land and water, and which are remote from a central government, suffer from violence and ethnic strife. A number of studies have looked at the convergence of economic, political and ecological marginality in several African countries. However, there is limited empirical study on the role of violence in pastoral livelihoods across ecological and geographical locations. Yet,…
Land Acquisition and the Adoption of Soil and Water Conservation Techniques
The Transfer of Trust
This article explores the role of ethnic identity in the framework of the livestock trade in West and East Africa. It argues that ethnic identity was used as an instrument to build trust relationships that were vital to the development of pre-colonial livestock trade networks. With the onset of colonial rule, alternative marketing channels developed, none of which proved to be capable of providing reliable and low transaction cost services to bot…
Explaining a Miracle
Economic Integration in Pastoral Areas; Commercialisation and Social Change among Kenya's Maasai
In this article, I discuss the processes and consequences of pastoralists' partial integration in the market. The theme of externally induced change in production strategies is related to change in social structure and continuity in pastoral culture in the Maasai area of Kajiado District, Kenya. There, partial market integration has taken on a new significance, its character depending on conditions in pastoral society in a dynamic process of comm…
Climate change, violent conflict and local institutions in Kenya's drylands
Many regions that are endowed with scarce natural resources such as arable land and water, and which are remote from a central government, suffer from violence and ethnic strife. A number of studies have looked at the convergence of economic, political and ecological marginality in several African countries. However, there is limited empirical study on the role of violence in pastoral livelihoods across ecological and geographical locations. Yet,…
The Transfer of Trust
This article explores the role of ethnic identity in the framework of the livestock trade in West and East Africa. It argues that ethnic identity was used as an instrument to build trust relationships that were vital to the development of pre-colonial livestock trade networks. With the onset of colonial rule, alternative marketing channels developed, none of which proved to be capable of providing reliable and low transaction cost services to bot…
Explaining a Miracle
Participatory Assessment of Development Interventions
This article presents the principles and findings of developing a new participatory assessment of development (PADev) evaluation approach that was codesigned with Dutch nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and northern and southern research institutes over a period of 4 years in the context of rural development in Ghana and Burkina Faso. Although participatory approaches in development evaluations have become widely accepted since the 1990s, the …
Land Acquisition and the Adoption of Soil and Water Conservation Techniques
Economic Integration in Pastoral Areas; Commercialisation and Social Change among Kenya's Maasai
In this article, I discuss the processes and consequences of pastoralists' partial integration in the market. The theme of externally induced change in production strategies is related to change in social structure and continuity in pastoral culture in the Maasai area of Kajiado District, Kenya. There, partial market integration has taken on a new significance, its character depending on conditions in pastoral society in a dynamic process of comm…
Economic Integration in Pastoral Areas; Commercialisation and Social Change among Kenya's Maasai
In this article, I discuss the processes and consequences of pastoralists' partial integration in the market. The theme of externally induced change in production strategies is related to change in social structure and continuity in pastoral culture in the Maasai area of Kajiado District, Kenya. There, partial market integration has taken on a new significance, its character depending on conditions in pastoral society in a dynamic process of comm…
Explaining a Miracle
The Transfer of Trust
This article explores the role of ethnic identity in the framework of the livestock trade in West and East Africa. It argues that ethnic identity was used as an instrument to build trust relationships that were vital to the development of pre-colonial livestock trade networks. With the onset of colonial rule, alternative marketing channels developed, none of which proved to be capable of providing reliable and low transaction cost services to bot…
Land Acquisition and the Adoption of Soil and Water Conservation Techniques
Climate change, violent conflict and local institutions in Kenya's drylands
Many regions that are endowed with scarce natural resources such as arable land and water, and which are remote from a central government, suffer from violence and ethnic strife. A number of studies have looked at the convergence of economic, political and ecological marginality in several African countries. However, there is limited empirical study on the role of violence in pastoral livelihoods across ecological and geographical locations. Yet,…
Participatory Assessment of Development Interventions
This article presents the principles and findings of developing a new participatory assessment of development (PADev) evaluation approach that was codesigned with Dutch nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and northern and southern research institutes over a period of 4 years in the context of rural development in Ghana and Burkina Faso. Although participatory approaches in development evaluations have become widely accepted since the 1990s, the …
Geography (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (3 works) · Agricultural economics (2 works) · Agricultural Innovations and Practices (2 works) · Agriculture (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Development economics (2 works)