Competing Paradigms in Pastoral Development? A Perspective from the Far North of Cameroon

Mark Moritz

World Development, 2008, vol. 36, issue 11, 2243-2254

Abstract: Summary The debate over the future and development of African pastoral systems is dominated by two paradigms that are considered mutually exclusive: the modernization and the mobility paradigm. However, an ethnographic study of a peri-urban pastoral system in the Far North Province of Cameroon shows that these paradigms need and should not be mutually exclusive. Peri-urban pastoralists combine intensive and extensive strategies to cope successfully with the disappearance of grazing lands in peri-urban areas. I discuss what the implications are of this autonomous development for pastoral development in Africa.

Keywords: West; Africa; Cameroon; development; pastoralism; intensification; mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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