Interventions for African pastoral development under adverse production trends













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by Jon R. Moris
Overseas Development Institute
Regent's College, Inner Circle
Regent's Park, London

alpan - AFRICAN LIVESTOCK POLICY ANALYSIS NETWORK

Network Paper No. 16 October 1988

INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK CENTRE FOR AFRICA (ILCA)

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Table of Contents


Introduction

Characteristics of African pastoralism

Inventory of livestock interventions

Technical interventions
Institutional interventions

Why the improvement of pastoralism is so difficult

Emergent adverse trends

Spontaneous development trends
Drought-related impacts
Induced systemic crises

Policy implications