Table Of Contents:

Introduction
M.A Mohamed Salih

Towards Security, Stability and Sustainability Oriented Strategies of Development in Eastern Africa
J.B. Opschoor

Sustainable Development and Resource Conflicts in Botswana
M.B.K Darkoh and J.E Mbaiwa

Participation and Governance in the Development of Borana: Southern Ethiopia
Johan Helland

Conflict Management, Resolution and Institutions among the Karrayu and their Neighbours
Ayalew Gebre

Ranchers and Pastoralists: The Restructuring of Government Ranching, Uganda
Frank  Emmanuel Muhereza

Resource Competition and Conflict: Herds/Farmer or Pastoralism/Agriculture
Mustafa Babiker

Resource Conflicts Among the Afar of North-East Ethiopia
Getachew Kassa

Livelihood and Resource Competition, Sudan
Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed

Pastoral Commercialisation: On calric Terms of Trade and Related Issues
Ton Dietz, Abdirizak Arale Nunow, Adano Wario Roba and Fred Zaal

Immediate Problems: A view from Distance
P.T.W. Baxter

Challenging Gender Roles and Pastoral Adaptations to Market Opportunity in Omdurman, Sudan
Samia El Hadi El Nager

Research-Led Policy Deliberation in Eritrea and Somalia: Searching to Overcome Institutional Gaps
Martin Doornbos

Notes on the Contributors
Index

Abstract:
Although many countries in Africa are devastated by poverty and famine, and are desperately in need of aid, it is generally recognised that programmes of aid and development in Africa are imposed upon local communities with little regard for their traditional values and way of life. This is true of development schemes imposed by national African governments, just as it is true of international aid schemes. This book provides a fresh look at these issues, and explores the way in which farming and traditional pastoral livelihoods have strengthened rather than weakened in the face of government reforms. It reveals how traditional institutions and resource management strategies within local African communities continue to endure, in spite o f the enormous pressure that development programmes assert, as pastoralists resolve to confront coercive stat policies designed to privilege the interests of the wealthy and powerful elite. Revealing the link between the structure of power relations in pastoral societies and a shrinking environmental space, the contributors demonstrate the intractable problems of the sustainability of pastoral development in situations characterized by increasing land appropriation and conflicts over resources. The book introduces thirteen case studies from Botswana, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda, and various other parts Africa.