The relationship between herders and trees in space and time in northern Cameroon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5286096 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Denis Gautier (0000-0001-7648-1881), Amélie Bonnerat, Aboubakar Njoya (Institut de Recherche Agricole pour le Développement) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 171 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 324-339 |
| Publication date | 2005-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7398 • E-ISSN: 1475-4959 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1475-4959.2005.00170.x |
| OpenAlex | W1989000803 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 13 |
Extensive herding is an important activity in northern Cameroon, in terms of both the local social economy and local land management. However, this activity is strongly linked to the availability and accessibility of fodder resources. Due to territorial processes, such as land clearance and wood harvesting, this resource is receding and pasturelands are becoming fragmented. Herders are facing new challenges to secure their livelihoods, and, in this context, fodder trees are emerging as a key resource, allowing herds to subsist up to the end of the dry season. Increasingly, trees are playing a significant part in the herders' strategies to feed their herds in time and space and to 'root' their activities to particular lands. This trend requires an analysis of the importance of fodder trees in the definition of territorial strategies operated by herders in northern Cameroon, in the context of various herding systems (nomadic herding, agro herding using transhumance, and settled agro herding). A discussion of herding strategies needed to address the decreasing access to fodder resources highlights the problems of current extensive herding systems and leads to proposed alternatives
Agriculture · Agroforestry · Biology · Business · Context (archaeology · Economics · Environmental resource management · Fodder · Geography · Herding · Livelihood · Livestock · Natural resource economics · Resource (disambiguation · African Botany and Ecology Studies · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Computer Science · Ecology · Forestry · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
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| Citations per year | 0,59 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2019 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |