Table Of Contents:    

List of Tables and Figures
Preface

East African Pastoralism and Underdevelopment: An Introduction
Leif Manger

Institutional Erosion in the Drylands: The Case of the Borana Pastoralists
Johan Helland

Changing Patterns of Resource Control among the Borana Pastoralists of Southern Ethiopia: A Lesson for Development Agencies
BokuTache

Problems of Sustainable Resource Use Among pastoralist Societies: The Influence of State Intervention on the Pastoral Life of the Karrayyu
Assefa Tolera

Effecting Development: Reflections on the Transformation of Agro- pastoral Production Systems in Eastern Sudan
Salah Shazali

Dryland Pastoralism among the Northern Bisharien of the Red Sea Hills, Sudan
OmerA. Egemi

The Struggle for Land Rights and the 1990 Squatter Uprisings in the former government ranching Schemes of Uganda
Frank Emmanuel Muhereza

Challenging Encounters: Datoga Lives in Independent Tanzania
Astrid Blystad

Oral Traditions and Past Human Uses of Natural Resources: The Case of Iraqw’ar Da/aw, North-Central Tanzania
Yusufe Q. Lawi

Emissaries for Peace, Envoys for management: External Relations and Drylands Management in the Zaghawa
Sharif Harir

Ethnicity and Scale
Frode Storaas

Dryland Soil Classification: Some Implications of two Knowledge Systems
Mustafa Babiker


Abstract:

Compilation of papers for a workshop held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Jinja, Uganda on issues facing pastoral and agro-pastoral societies. The contributors discuss pastoral societies in the sub-region and question the long-term viability of such communities in the context of various development efforts. The book states that the predicament of the East African pastoralists is not dependent solely on the state of the range on which they live, and on the quality of their animals, but rather on a series of dynamics that reaches far beyond the limits of the pastoral communities themselves. But at the same time, local factors, range and animals alike, make up important premises for the continuation of pastoralism as a particular mode of various interrelationships between the local factors and various types of external factors that together shape the contemporary reality of East African pastoralists.