Constraints to Development of extensive livestock systems: Experiences from southern Ethiopia
This paper reviews pastoral research and Development perspectives generated from the southern Ethiopian rangelands during the 1980s. This system was selected as a case study of constraints in African pastoral Development because the experiences from both research and Development are fairly well docu...
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British Society of Animal Production
1993
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| author | Coppock, D. Layne |
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| description | This paper reviews pastoral research and Development perspectives generated from the southern Ethiopian rangelands during the 1980s. This system was selected as a case study of constraints in African pastoral Development because the experiences from both research and Development are fairly well documented and integrated. Until recently, the Boran managed a production system that was fairly typical of semi-settled, traditional pastoralism in East Africa. However, the Boran today are in a state of considerable change that has been induced primarily by a long-term decline in the per capita supply of cows' milk, the traditional dietary staple. This inbalance has resulted from steady growth in the human population in combination with density dependent fluctuations in cattle production. Other major changes in pastoral, social and economic attitudes have occured as a result of population pressure and exposure to the inhabitants of small towns that have emerged as a result of Development of rural infrastructure since the 1970s. Overall, this pressure has led to increased instability and vulnerability of the pastoral population, but also offers new windows of opportunity for the application of technical, but especially policy oriented, interventions. It is suggested that constraints to implementing successful Development activities here lie more in the limitations of external institutions and the national economy, rather than within the Boran system. Long-term population trends and opportunities for Development interventions over the short term, will also be obscured by inter-drought cycles of cattle production that produce complex system interactions. Greater appreciation of the effects of such cycles on the social and economic behaviour of pastoralists could facilitate more effective Development planning. |
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| spelling | CGSpace503022024-03-06T10:16:43Z Constraints to Development of extensive livestock systems: Experiences from southern Ethiopia Coppock, D. Layne livestock farming systems agricultural development constraints pastoralists borana ethnic group This paper reviews pastoral research and Development perspectives generated from the southern Ethiopian rangelands during the 1980s. This system was selected as a case study of constraints in African pastoral Development because the experiences from both research and Development are fairly well documented and integrated. Until recently, the Boran managed a production system that was fairly typical of semi-settled, traditional pastoralism in East Africa. However, the Boran today are in a state of considerable change that has been induced primarily by a long-term decline in the per capita supply of cows' milk, the traditional dietary staple. This inbalance has resulted from steady growth in the human population in combination with density dependent fluctuations in cattle production. Other major changes in pastoral, social and economic attitudes have occured as a result of population pressure and exposure to the inhabitants of small towns that have emerged as a result of Development of rural infrastructure since the 1970s. Overall, this pressure has led to increased instability and vulnerability of the pastoral population, but also offers new windows of opportunity for the application of technical, but especially policy oriented, interventions. It is suggested that constraints to implementing successful Development activities here lie more in the limitations of external institutions and the national economy, rather than within the Boran system. Long-term population trends and opportunities for Development interventions over the short term, will also be obscured by inter-drought cycles of cattle production that produce complex system interactions. Greater appreciation of the effects of such cycles on the social and economic behaviour of pastoralists could facilitate more effective Development planning. 1993 2014-10-31T06:09:03Z 2014-10-31T06:09:03Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/50302 en Limited Access British Society of Animal Production |
| spellingShingle | livestock farming systems agricultural development constraints pastoralists borana ethnic group Coppock, D. Layne Constraints to Development of extensive livestock systems: Experiences from southern Ethiopia |
| title | Constraints to Development of extensive livestock systems: Experiences from southern Ethiopia |
| title_full | Constraints to Development of extensive livestock systems: Experiences from southern Ethiopia |
| title_fullStr | Constraints to Development of extensive livestock systems: Experiences from southern Ethiopia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Constraints to Development of extensive livestock systems: Experiences from southern Ethiopia |
| title_short | Constraints to Development of extensive livestock systems: Experiences from southern Ethiopia |
| title_sort | constraints to development of extensive livestock systems experiences from southern ethiopia |
| topic | livestock farming systems agricultural development constraints pastoralists borana ethnic group |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/50302 |
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