Social capital: Lessons from West Africa

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dc.contributor.authorMoore, Keith M.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialMalien
dc.coverage.spatialWest Africaen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T19:20:09Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T19:20:09Zen
dc.date.issued2007en
dc.description.abstractThe natural resources of the Sahel have been degrading, leading to reduced productivity and incomes and prompting conflicts among pastoralists, sedentary agriculturalists and fisherfolk. The State has been unable to effectively reverse these trends and has embarked on a policy of decentralization, devolving responsibility for NRM to local administrative structures. Decentralization has changed the dynamics of natural resource management (NRM), but it has not yet yielded a methodology for effective local governance in the Sahel. The donor community and NGOs have promoted local institutions as a core element in new strategies for rural development and natural resource management. It is hypothesized that methods to plan together and overcome conflicts are required to both work in the context of limited resources and build social capital to improve the resource base for future generations. This presentation describes the establishment of a multi-village, multi-ethnic organization in the conflict-ridden Mopti Region of Mali and examines the extent to which it has been able to build the social capital necessary to have an impact on the community. It concludes with a set of lessons learned.en
dc.description.notesLTRA-4 (Practices and Strategies for Vulnerable Agro-Ecosystems)en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/vnd.ms-powerpointen
dc.identifier2593en
dc.identifier.citationPresented at the Segundo Seminario Internacional de Investigación SANREM CRSP: Cambios globales y su efecto sobre los sistemas agropecuarios de la zona andina, La Paz, Bolivia, 28-29 June 2007en
dc.identifier.other2593_Social_Capital_Lessons_West_Africa_Keith.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/67067en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectConflicten
dc.subjectNatural resource managementen
dc.subjectDecentralizationen
dc.subjectSocial capitalen
dc.subjectCommunity organizationsen
dc.subjectEcosystemen
dc.titleSocial capital: Lessons from West Africaen
dc.title.alternativeCapital social: Lecciones de Africa del Oesteen
dc.typePresentationen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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