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Increasing violent conflict between herders and farmers in Africa: Claims and evidence

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dc.contributorOverseas Development Institute (London, UK)en
dc.contributorSchool of Development Studies (Norwich, UK)en
dc.contributor.authorHussein, K.en
dc.contributor.authorSumberg, J.en
dc.contributor.authorSeddon, D.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialSemiarid Africaen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T18:56:16Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T18:56:16Zen
dc.date.issued1999en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractThis paper reports the results of a literature review and postal survey focused on the many relatively recent claims of increasing violent conflict between herders and farmers in semi-arid Africa. These claims are being used to prompt new policy and development interventions that could have profound implication on social and economic relations and natural resource use in semi-arid areas. However, the review revealed that few of these claims are supported by compelling evidence, and even the historical analyses which were reviewed fail to provide the rigorous time-series data necessary to confirm the hypothesis that violent farmer-herder conflict is generally increasing in semi-arid Africa. This lack of convincing evidence that violent conflict is increasing should engender a more circumspect approach on the part of policy makers and development professionals alike.en
dc.format.mimetypetext/plainen
dc.identifier1434en
dc.identifier.citationDevelopment Policy Review 17(4): 397-418en
dc.identifier.issn0950-6764en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/66141en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherOxford: Blackwell Publishersen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.uea.ac.uk/menu/acad_depts/dev/faculty/seddon/jds99f.htmen
dc.subjectConflicten
dc.subjectSemiarid zonesen
dc.subjectCattleen
dc.subjectViolent conflicten
dc.subjectFarmersen
dc.subjectHerder conflicten
dc.subjectEcosystemen
dc.titleIncreasing violent conflict between herders and farmers in Africa: Claims and evidenceen
dc.typeAbstracten
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