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Browsing by Author "Ballo, A."

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  • Carbon sequestration from common property resources: Lessons from community-based sustainable pasture management in north-central Mali
    Roncoli, ‪Carla; Jost, C.; Perez, C.; Moore, Keith M.; Ballo, A.; Cissé, Salmana; Ouattara, K. (Elsevier Ltd., 2007)
    Carbon sequestration in soils has been presented as a potential mechanism to enhance productivity in semi-arid lands in Africa while contributing to the mitigation of greenhouse emissions. Most of the literature, however, focuses on assessing the capacity of existing technology to sequester carbon in soils. There is much less discussion in the literature on the social and institutional elements that need to be in place to realize the potential benefits of carbon sequestration. This paper contributes insights in this direction by analyzing a case of community-based pasture management in north-central Mali. The case study challenges common assumptions in carbon sequestration efforts, namely that land resources are devoted to a single use by resident users; have distinct boundaries and fall within identifiable territorial and administrative jurisdictions, and are subject to widely recognized claims and free of conflict. We suggest that this is not always the case. Findings indicate that carbon sequestration projects centered on rangelands need to allow for flexibility in livestock movements and resource availability and to account for the diverging interest of multiple stakeholders, including different types of pastoralists and farmers. We conclude that social capital formation and conflict management are key elements of a carbon sequestration strategy.
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    Enquetes sur les mouvements des troupeaux bovins, ovins et caprins dans la commune rurale de Madiama
    Ballo, A.; Ouattara, A. (Blacksburg, Va.: Virginia Tech. Office of International Research and Development, 2002)
  • Investigation into the movements of cattle, sheep and goat herds through the commune of Madiama
    Ballo, A.; Ouattara, A. (Wallingford, Oxon; Cambridge, Mass.: CABI Publishing, 2005)
    In chapter 4, Ballo and Ouattara describe the systems of animal husbandry within and around Madiama, thereby broadening the perspective of the landscape/lifescape scale. The chapter characterizes each of three livestock management types (sedentary, semi-transhumant, and transhumant) involving cattle, oxen, milk cows, sheep and goats. Pastoralists are either transhumant or resident, and often tend to the herds of local farmers much of the year. The pastoral resources available to the commune are limited and though traditional grazing of crop residues and fertilization of soil exists, there is increasing loss of organic matter. The chapter concludes that under Mali's new Pastoral Code, conditions could improve, but improvement will require the concerted efforts of agriculturalists and pastoralists.
  • Land use changes in Madiama Commune
    Wynne, Randolph H.; Sidi, M.; Touré, M.; Sengupta, N.; Ballo, A. (Wallingford, Oxon; Cambridge, Mass.: CABI Publishing, 2005)
    In chapter 5, Wynne et al. combine remote sensing and ground truthing in the analysis of land use change during a fifty-year period (1952-2002) in the Commune of Madiama. The chapter documents the dramatic shift in land use from pastoral to crop-based production systems.