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1 Foy, R. H.; Kirk, M.. 1995. Agriculture and water quality: A regional study. Water and Environmental Management, 9(3):247-256.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 4181 Record No: H017930)
2 McCarthy, N; Swallow, B.; Kirk, M.; Hazell, P. (Eds.) 2000. Property rights, risk, and livestock development in Africa. Washington, DC, USA; Nairobi, Kenya: IFPRI; ILRI. x, 433p.
Livestock ; Animal husbandry ; Land tenure ; Pastoralism ; Agrarian reform ; Decentralization ; Legal aspects ; Public policy ; Drought ; Risks ; Economic analysis ; Common property ; Land use ; Conflict ; Analysis ; Institutions ; Farming systems ; Land reform ; Sustainability ; Case studies ; Population growth ; Crop production ; Millets ; Constraints ; Research methods / Africa / Niger / Ethiopia
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.3 G100 MCC Record No: H025954)
Papers presented at an international conference.
3 Kamara, A.; Swallow, B.; Kirk, M.. 2002. Role of policies and development interventions in pastoral resource management: the Borana rangelands in southern Ethiopia. Nairobi, Kenya: International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI); Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). vii, 34p. (ILRI Socio-economics and Policy Research Working Paper 53)
Grassland management ; Peasant workers ; Institutional development ; Policy ; Drought ; Land use / Ethiopia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 636 G136 KAM Record No: H032442)
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The Borana rangelands of southern Ethiopia are characterised by extensive livestock production in response to the area’s natural characteristics - aggregate mean rainfall ranges between 300 and 900 mm per annum with high seasonal and inter-annual variability. Though traditionally transhumant pastoralists, the Boranas have recently increased their reliance on crops, with evidence of communal pastures becoming either privatised, or accessible to only a small sub-group of individuals or households. Built on earlier quantitative assessment of the socio-economic drivers of the above changes, this paper focuses on the role of national level policies implemented in the area over the past decades, and how these have affected the traditional institutional setting that determines land use, property rights and pathways of livestock development. Intensive literature review was combined with in-depth key informant and group interviews to identify key policies and interventions, assess their impacts and explore the responses and strategies adopted at both individual and community levels to cope with the changing situation. While acknowledging the role of demographic and market forces as highlighted in the quantitative assessment, the paper concludes that different pathways from transhumant pastoralism have been shaped by policies and external interventions.
4 McCarthy, N.; Kamara, A.; Kirk, M.. 2003. Co-operation in risky environments: Evidence from Southern Ethiopia. Journal of African Economies, 12(2):236-270.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 338.1 G136 McC Record No: H032529)
The semi-arid and arid rangelands of Sub-Saharan Africa are characterized by high variability and by heavy reliance of herders on access to common resources, predominantly pasture and water. In these systems, the capacity of the community to co-operate over resource management is critical and the effectiveness of management has a direct impact on exploitation rates and land allocation patterns. In this paper, we develop a model to capture the impact of climatic variability on capacity to co-operate and on resulting land use and allocation patterns, and apply the model to data collected from communities located on the Borana Plateau in southern Ethiopia. Results indicate that rainfall variability has a negative impact on stock densities, consistent with risk-averse producer behavior, but has no statistically significant impact on land allocation patterns in this marginal area. Furthermore, co-operation has a direct negative impact on stock densities and land allocated to private pastures. The results support the hypothesis that individual incentives to overgraze and encroach on common pastures can be mitigated in communities with high co-operative capacity.
5 Deininger, K. W.; Kirk, M.. 2003. Land policy, poverty alleviation and sustainable rural development. Agriculture and Rural Development, 10(2):44-47.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 6592 Record No: H033096)
6 Kamara, Abdul B.; Swallow, B.; Kirk, M.. 2004. Policies, interventions and institutional change in pastoral resource management in Borana, Southern Ethiopia. Development Policy Review, 22(4):381-403.
Pastoralism ; Social organization ; Policy ; Livestock ; Grazing ; Institutional development ; Land use ; Economic analysis / Ethiopia / Borana
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 636 G136 KAM Record No: H035105)
7 Kamara, Abdul; Kirk, M.; Swallow, B. 2005. Property rights and land use change: implications for sustainable resource management in Borana, Southern Ethiopia. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 25(2):45-61.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333 G136 KAM Record No: H038305)
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