Property Rights, Risk, & Livestock Development in Africa

Property Rights, Risk, &
Livestock Development in Africa

Edited by McCarthy Nancy, Brent Swallow, Michael Kirk and Peter Hazell

Published by ILRI and IFPRI
433 pages / 2000 / ISBN 0-89629-339-6

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface and Acknowledgement

Property rights, risk, and livestock development in Africa: issues and project approach
Brent M. Swallow and Nancy McCarthy

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Part I: The Context for Livestock and Crop-Livestock Development in Africa

Chapter 1:

The context for livestock and crop-livestock development in Africa: the evolving role of the state in influencing property rights over grazing resources in Sub-Saharan Africa
Michael Kirk

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Chapter 2:

The role of the donors influencing property rights over pastoral resources in Sub-Saharan Africa
Herman Grell and Michael Kirk

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Chapter 3:

Public policy and drought management in agropastoral systems
Peter Hazell

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Chapter 4:

Managing mobility in African Rangelands
Maryam Niamir-Fuller

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Chapter 5:

Crop-livestock systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: determinants and intensification pathways
Timothy O. Williams, Pierre Hiernaux, and Salvador Fernandez-Rivera

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Part II: Modeling of the Effects of Risk on Rangeland Management

Chapter 6:

An economic analysis of the effects of production risk on the use and management of common-pool rangelands
Nancy McCarthy

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Chapter 7:

Fuzzy access: modeling grazing rights in Sub-Saharan Africa
Rachel E. Goodhue and Nancy McCarthy

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Chapter 8:

Ownership, appropriation, and risk
Pasquale Lucio Scandizzo

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Part III: Policies and Institutions for Risky Environments

Chapter 9:

The dynamics of land use and property rights in semi-arid East Africa
Brent M. Swallow and Abdul B. Kamara

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Chapter 10:

Conflicts and cooperation over the commons: a conceptual and methodological framework for assessing the role of local
institutions
Jean-Paul Vanderlinden

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Part IV: Empirical Studies

Chapter 11:

Can pastoral institutions perform without access option?
Tidiane Ngaido

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Chapter 12:

Experimenting with the commons: a comparative history of the effects of land policy on pastoralism in two homelands.reserves,
Southern Africa
Rick Rohde, M.Timm Hoffman, and Ben Cousins

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Chapter 13:

Niger case study
Jean-Paul Vandelinden

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Chapter 14:

Implications of population growth and declining access to transhumant grazing areas for the sustainability of agropastoral systems in the semi-arid areas of Niger
Bruno Barbier and Peter Hazell

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