The politics of manure: Resource tenure and the agropastoral economy in Southwestern Niger

dc.contributor.authorHeasley, L.en
dc.contributor.authorDelehanty, J.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialSouthwestern Nigeren
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T18:56:18Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T18:56:18Zen
dc.date.issued1996en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractDisputes over manure in Southwestern Niger reveal broad strategies for natural resource control employed by farmers and herders in a transitional agropastoral economy, where resources are scarce, some traditional ethnic specializations are breaking down, and the dominant national political motif is devolution. Four themes emerge: (1) In agropastoral systems, manure offers entry to the general regional political ecology because it links the livestock and agricultural sides of the economy, as well as the economy and the resource base. (2) Where groups vie for a limited resource, all take strategic advantage of legitimizing claims, whether grounded in history, customary roles, debts owed, contracts drawn, official known, old law, new law, or law deemed likely in the future. (3) Conflicts between claimants are heightened where the state seeks to empower customary authorities but cannot define them. (4) Devolving control over natural resources might best begin not by assigning power but by defining lines of conflict and the legitimizing logic behind conflicting claims. (Heasley and Delehanty)en
dc.format.mimetypetext/plainen
dc.identifier1443en
dc.identifier.citationSociety & Natural Resources 9: 31-46en
dc.identifier.issn0894-1920en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/66151en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 1996 Taylor & Francisen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectConflicten
dc.subjectLaws and regulationsen
dc.subjectLand tenureen
dc.subjectManureen
dc.subjectPastoralismen
dc.subjectGovernmenten
dc.subjectAgropastoralismen
dc.subjectFulanien
dc.subjectNigeren
dc.subjectRural codeen
dc.subjectZarmaen
dc.subjectDevolutionen
dc.subjectTenureen
dc.subjectTransitionalen
dc.subjectAgropastoral economyen
dc.subjectPolitical ecologyen
dc.subjectControlen
dc.subjectClaimsen
dc.subjectEcosystem Farm/Enterprise Scaleen
dc.titleThe politics of manure: Resource tenure and the agropastoral economy in Southwestern Nigeren
dc.typeAbstracten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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