The relationship between herders and trees in space and time in northern Cameroon
| Autor: | Denis Gautier, Aboubakar Njoya, Amélie Bonnerat |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Resource (biology)
Agroforestry L01 - Élevage - Considérations générales Geography Planning and Development Land management Context (language use) gestion des ressources naturelles Élevage Livelihood Geography Fodder Environmental protection K01 - Foresterie - Considérations générales Forêt Resource management P01 - Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières Herding Earth-Surface Processes Social economy |
| Zdroj: | Geographical Journal |
| ISSN: | 1475-4959 0016-7398 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1475-4959.2005.00170.x |
| Popis: | Extensive herding is an important activity in northern Cameroon, in terms of both the local social economy and local land management. However, this activity is strongly linked to the availability and accessibility of fodder resources. Due to territorial processes, such as land clearance and wood harvesting, this resource is receding and pasturelands are becoming fragmented. Herders are facing new challenges to secure their livelihoods, and, in this context, fodder trees are emerging as a key resource, allowing herds to subsist up to the end of the dry season. Increasingly, trees are playing a significant part in the herders' strategies to feed their herds in time and space and to 'root' their activities to particular lands. This trend requires an analysis of the importance of fodder trees in the definition of territorial strategies operated by herders in northern Cameroon, in the context of various herding systems (nomadic herding, agro herding using transhumance, and settled agro herding). A discussion of herding strategies needed to address the decreasing access to fodder resources highlights the problems of current extensive herding systems and leads to proposed alternatives. |
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