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Property Rights, Risk, & Livestock Development in Africa
Edited by McCarthy Nancy, Brent Swallow, Michael Kirk and Peter Hazell
Published by ILRI and IFPRI
433 pages / 2000 / ISBN 0-89629-339-6

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface and Acknowledgement
Property rights, risk, and livestock development in Africa: issues and project approach
Brent M. Swallow and Nancy McCarthy

Part I: The Context for Livestock and Crop-Livestock Development in Africa

    Chapter 1:
    The context for livestock and crop-livestock development in Africa: the evolving role of the state in influencing property rights over grazing resources in Sub-Saharan Africa
    Michael Kirk
    Chapter 2:
    The role of the donors influencing property rights over pastoral resources in Sub-Saharan Africa
    Herman Grell and Michael Kirk
    Chapter 3:
    Public policy and drought management in agropastoral systems
    Peter Hazell
    Chapter 4:
    Managing mobility in African Rangelands
    Maryam Niamir-Fuller
    Chapter 5:
    Crop-livestock systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: determinants and intensification pathways
    Timothy O. Williams, Pierre Hiernaux, and Salvador Fernández-Rivera

Part II: Modeling of the Effects of Risk on Rangeland Management

    Chapter 6:
    An economic analysis of the effects of production risk on the use and management of common-pool rangelands
    Nancy McCarthy
    Chapter 7:
    Fuzzy access: modeling grazing rights in Sub-Saharan Africa
    Rachel E. Goodhue and Nancy McCarthy
    Chapter 8:
    Ownership, appropriation, and risk
    Pasquale Lucio Scandizzo

Part III: Policies and Institutions for Risky Environments

    Chapter 9:
    The dynamics of land use and property rights in semi-arid East Africa
    Brent M. Swallow and Abdul B. Kamara
    Chapter 10:
    Conflicts and cooperation over the commons: a conceptual and methodological framework for assessing the role of local institutions
    Jean-Paul Vanderlinden

Part IV: Empirical Studies

    Chapter 11:
    Can pastoral institutions perform without access option?
    Tidiane Ngaido
    Chapter 12:
    Experimenting with the commons: a comparative history of the effects of land policy on pastoralism in two homelands.reserves, Southern Africa
    Rick Rohde, M.Timm Hoffman, and Ben Cousins
    Chapter 13:
    Niger case study
    Jean-Paul Vandelinden
    Chapter 14:
    Implications of population growth and declining access to transhumant grazing areas for the sustainability of agropastoral systems in the semi-arid areas of Niger
    Bruno Barbier and Peter Hazell
    Chapter 15:
    Ethiopian case study
    Abdul B. Kamara

Contributors and Conference Agenda

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