Managing Mobility in African Rangelands

List of Tables List of Maps List of Figures Foreword Acknowledgements Contributors 1 Introduction 1 2 A review of recent literature on pastoralism and transhumance in Africa 18 3 Le role des institutions provisoires dans la gestion des ressources a propriete commune des terres arides en Mauritanie 47 4 Les regles d'acces des troupeaux peuls aux paturages du Delta central du Niger (Mali) 76 5 The role of social networks, indefinite boundaries and political bargaining in maintaining the ecological and economic resilience of the transhumance systems of Sudano-Sahelian West Africa 97 6 Customary law and ways of life in transition among the Nuer of south Sudan 124 7 Conflict management and mobility among pastoralists in Karamoja, Uganda 149 8 Stock movement and range management in a Himba community in north-western Namibia 184 9 Ecological dynamics and grazing-resource tenure: a case study from Zimbabwe 217 10 Gestion de la mobilite et resistance des organisations pastorales des eleveurs du Haut Atlas marocain face aux transformations de contexte pastoral maghrebin 236 11 Toward a synthesis of guidelines for legitimizing transhumance 266 References 291 Index 312