Cooperative Pastoral Production

A review of the literature concerning nomadic pastoralism reveals a prevalent assumption of a positive effect of labor inputs on pastoral production. However, studies that have tried to quantify the relationship between household labor availability and production are characterized by contradictory results where one reason may be related to the fact that nomadic pastoralists cooperate by sharing and exchanging labor. As a consequence, previous quantitative research may have neglected an important level of social organization. The prevalence of cooperative labor investment among pastoralists may indicate the presence of scale-dependent effects of pastoral labor on production. This article aims at developing a conceptual model illustrating this possibility, where the scale dependent effects of labor inputs are conceptualized as changes in the relationship between the costs and benefits of labor at different levels of social organization. [nomadic pastoralism, labor, cooperation, production, modeling]SAMMENDRAG En gjennomgang av litteraturen om nomadisk pastoralisme, avslører en utbredt forestilling om positiv effekt av arbeidskraft på pastoral produksjon. Til tross for dette har studier søkt å kvantifisere forholdet mellom tilgjengelig arbeidskraft og produksjon, gitt motstridende resultater hvor en årsak kan være at nomadiske pastoralister gjennom samarbeid, deler og utveksler arbeidskraft. Med andre ord kan tidligere studier ha oversett et viktig nivå av sosial organisering. Utbredelsen av arbeidsinvestering gjennom samarbeid, synes å antyde tilstedeværelsen av skalaavhengige effekter av pastoral arbeidskraft på produksjon. Artikkelens mål er å utvikle en konseptuell modell som illustrerer denne muligheten, hvor de skalaavhengige effektene av arbeidskraft består av endringer i forholdet mellom kostnader og fordeler ved arbeidsinvestering på forskjellige nivåer av sosial organisering

Cartography · Economics · Geography · Livestock · Microeconomics · Pastoralism · Production (economics · Scale (ratio · Sociology · Welfare economics · Agricultural and Rural Development Research · Forestry · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

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