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Abstract
- This chapter focuses on ways that pastoralists respond to ecological and climate variability through strategies of pastoral mobility and exploitation of micro-ecologies throughout the Sahel. The chapter reflects recent scholarly work that argues for recognition of the viability of mobile pastoral systems and their long-term value to national economies and rural community nutrition. West African pasturelands are as biodiverse as woodlands further south, and herders exercise strategic decision-making not accounted for among most government decision-makers before the mid-1990s. In addition to policy challenges, twenty-first-century Sahelian pastoralists are faced with constraints on pasture access, criminal activity, climate instability, and religious radicalism. This chapter argues that intra-regional issues of land use policy and tension between extensive pastoral production systems and projects of nation-building are at the center of current political instability in pastoral communities.
| Title | Pastoralist Societies in the Sahel |
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| Creator | Wilson-Fall, Wendy |
| Source | The Oxford Handbook of the African Sahel |
| Academic Department | Africana Studies |
| Division | Social Sciences |
| Organization | Lafayette College |
| Date Issued | 2021 |
| Date Available | 2023-12-20 |
| Type | Part of Book |
| Language | English |
| Keyword | biodiversity |
| pastoral mobility | |
| pasture | |
| micro-ecologies | |
| policy | |
| instability | |
| nation-building | |
| Bibliographic Citation | Wilson-Fall, W. (2021) "Pastoralist Societies in the Sahel." In Leonardo A. Villalón (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the African Sahel (pp. 667-682). New York: Oxford University Press |
| Standard Identifier | Handle 10385/4q77fs54k |
| DOI 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198816959.013.38 | |
| Related Resource | https://ezproxy.lafayette.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198816959.001.0001 |
| Permalink | http://hdl.handle.net/10385/4q77fs54k |
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