Getting scale right: Multi stakeholder forums for large scale management of mobile livestock production systems in the Republic of Niger
As the renowned pastoralist Jim Ellis ( Coughenour, 2004 ) has put it, the much cherished paradigm of development cooperation.small is beautiful does not work with pastoralisme in arid savannas.In order to make best and sustainable use of pastures as well as for risk reduction, pastoralists all over the arid savannas of the world have developed mobile livestock production systems thus adapting to an environment of non equilibrium character.To balance unpredictable and highly varying fodder production pastoralists are using large areas, migrating over hundreds of miles.Development Projects have to adapt to this pattern and when working on rangeland management should adopt a.big is beautiful approach in accordance with the logic of mobile livestock production systems.Small scale intervention in contrast runs the danger of fragmenting the rangelands and land use regulations and thus weakening the system making it less productive and more prone to conflicts.
mobile pastoralisme range land management arid savannas
Th.Sommerhalter
Programme Lutte Contré la Pauvreté( LUCOP),gtz,BP 10814,Niamey,Niger
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）