Integrating the intensive and extensive rangeland management systems: the ideal choice for the Marsabit pastoralists,Kenya
Arising from the differences between the two management systems, there exist an overt antagonism between the traditional pastoral resource management systems and the conventional or mainstream range management systems.The conventional range management dismisses traditional resource management as primitive, self‐destructive, and thus too unproductive.The conventional range management has since imposed its authority in matters pertaining to pastoral development and production.The result has been general failure of most such pastoral development, with the two camps accusing each other for the failures.Amidst these accusations, pastoralists.livelihood activities and projects tend to be dysfunctional, resulting to pastoralists vulnerability to poverty and other socioeconomic ills ( Tadingar and Farah,1996 ; Aboud, et al,1997).This study set to investigate pastoralists.awareness, willingness and possibility of integrating the traditional extensive management systems and the conventional intensive systems, for adoption by the pastoralists in Marsabit district of Kenya, to benefit the herders and the national economy.
traditional conventional grazing‐systems integration
Abdillahi A.Aboud Isako Tura Mark Mutinda Edward Lentoror Layne Coppock
Egerton University,P.O.Box 536,Egerton Centre,K enya Ministry of Livestock & Fisheries Development,P.O.Box 4,Marsabit,Kenya ) Department of Environment & Society,Utah State University,USA
国际会议
呼和浩特
英文
2008-06-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）