Unmaking the commons: Collective action, property rights and resource appropriation among (agro-) pastoralists in eastern Ethiopia

In Ethiopian development policies, pastoralist areas have recently attracted more attention. However, much debate and policy advice is still based on assumptions that see a sedentary lifestyle as the desirable development outcome for pastoralist communities. This paper investigates current practices...

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Autores principales: Beyene, Fekadu, Korf, Benedikt
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Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160646
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description In Ethiopian development policies, pastoralist areas have recently attracted more attention. However, much debate and policy advice is still based on assumptions that see a sedentary lifestyle as the desirable development outcome for pastoralist communities. This paper investigates current practices of collective action and how these are affected by changing property rights in the pastoralist and agro-pastoralist economies of three selected sites in eastern Ethiopia. We describe forms of collective action in water and pasture resource management and analyze how changing property rights regimes affect incentives for collective action. We illustrate the distributional effects these practices are having on (agro-) pastoralist communities and how these practices are being influenced by the broader political and economic dynamisms of the area.
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spelling CGSpace1606462025-02-19T14:02:54Z Unmaking the commons: Collective action, property rights and resource appropriation among (agro-) pastoralists in eastern Ethiopia Beyene, Fekadu Korf, Benedikt pastoralism collective action property rights conflicts water management rangelands management environmental management poverty In Ethiopian development policies, pastoralist areas have recently attracted more attention. However, much debate and policy advice is still based on assumptions that see a sedentary lifestyle as the desirable development outcome for pastoralist communities. This paper investigates current practices of collective action and how these are affected by changing property rights in the pastoralist and agro-pastoralist economies of three selected sites in eastern Ethiopia. We describe forms of collective action in water and pasture resource management and analyze how changing property rights regimes affect incentives for collective action. We illustrate the distributional effects these practices are having on (agro-) pastoralist communities and how these practices are being influenced by the broader political and economic dynamisms of the area. 2008 2024-11-21T09:51:26Z 2024-11-21T09:51:26Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160646 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Beyene, Fekadu; Korf, Benedikt. 2008. Unmaking the commons. CAPRi working paper 0088 https://doi.org/10.2499/capriwp88.
spellingShingle pastoralism
collective action
property rights
conflicts
water management
rangelands management
environmental management
poverty
Beyene, Fekadu
Korf, Benedikt
Unmaking the commons: Collective action, property rights and resource appropriation among (agro-) pastoralists in eastern Ethiopia
title Unmaking the commons: Collective action, property rights and resource appropriation among (agro-) pastoralists in eastern Ethiopia
title_full Unmaking the commons: Collective action, property rights and resource appropriation among (agro-) pastoralists in eastern Ethiopia
title_fullStr Unmaking the commons: Collective action, property rights and resource appropriation among (agro-) pastoralists in eastern Ethiopia
title_full_unstemmed Unmaking the commons: Collective action, property rights and resource appropriation among (agro-) pastoralists in eastern Ethiopia
title_short Unmaking the commons: Collective action, property rights and resource appropriation among (agro-) pastoralists in eastern Ethiopia
title_sort unmaking the commons collective action property rights and resource appropriation among agro pastoralists in eastern ethiopia
topic pastoralism
collective action
property rights
conflicts
water management
rangelands management
environmental management
poverty
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160646
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