Nyberg, Gert and Öborn, Ingrid and Wredle, Ewa and Grönvall, Antonia and Svanlund, Sara and Malmer, Anders
(2015).
Enclosures in West Pokot, Kenya: Transforming land, livestock and livelihoods in drylands.
Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice. 5
, 1-12
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Abstract
Dryland livestock production systems are changing in many parts of the world, as a result of growing human populations and associated pressure on water and land. Based on a combination of social and natural science methods, we studied a 30-year transformation process from pastoralism to a livestock-based agro-pastoral system in northwestern Kenya, with the overall aim to increase the understanding of the ongoing transition towards intensified agro-pastoralist production systems in dryland East Africa. Key to this transformation was the use of enclosures for land rehabilitation, fodder production, and land and livestock management. Enclosures have more soil carbon and a higher vegetation cover than adjacent areas with open grazing. The level of adoption of enclosures as a management tool has been very high, and their use has enabled agricultural diversification, e.g. increased crop agriculture, poultry production and the inclusion of improved livestock. Following the use of enclosures, livelihoods have become less dependent on livestock migration, are increasingly directed towards agribusinesses and present new opportunities and constraints for women. These livelihood changes are closely associated with, and depend on, an ongoing privatization of land under different tenure regimes. The results indicate that the observed transformation provides opportunities for a pathway towards a sustainable livestock-based agro-pastoral system that could be valid in many dryland areas in East Africa. However, we also show that emergent risks of conflicts and inequalities in relation to land, triggered by the weakening of collective property rights, pose a threat to the sustainability of this pathway.
Authors/Creators: | Nyberg, Gert and Öborn, Ingrid and Wredle, Ewa and Grönvall, Antonia and Svanlund, Sara and Malmer, Anders | ||||
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Title: | Enclosures in West Pokot, Kenya: Transforming land, livestock and livelihoods in drylands | ||||
Series Name/Journal: | Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice | ||||
Year of publishing : | 2015 | ||||
Volume: | 5 | ||||
Page range: | 1-12 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 12 | ||||
Publisher: | Springer | ||||
ISSN: | 2041-7136 | ||||
Language: | English | ||||
Publication Type: | Research article | ||||
Refereed: | Yes | ||||
Article category: | Scientific peer reviewed | ||||
Version: | Published version | ||||
Copyright: | Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 | ||||
Full Text Status: | Public | ||||
Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 4 Agricultural Sciences > 401 Agricultural, Forestry and Fisheries > Agricultural Science (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 4 Agricultural Sciences > 405 Other Agricultural Sciences > Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use | ||||
Keywords: | livestock, pastoralism, land use | ||||
URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-3444 | ||||
Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-3444 | ||||
Additional ID: |
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ID Code: | 13335 | ||||
Faculty: | NJ - Fakulteten för naturresurser och jordbruksvetenskap S - Faculty of Forest Sciences | ||||
Department: | (NL, NJ) > Dept. of Crop Production Ecology (S) > Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management | ||||
Deposited By: | SLUpub Connector | ||||
Deposited On: | 18 May 2016 09:05 | ||||
Metadata Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2020 14:17 |
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