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Once again, the Horn of Africa has been in the headlines. And once
again the news has been bad: drought, famine, conflict, hunger,
suffering and death. The finger of blame has been pointed in
numerous directions: to the changing climate, to environmental
degradation, to overpopulation, to geopolitics and conflict, to aid
agency failures, and more. But it is not all disaster and
catastrophe. Many successful development efforts at 'the margins'
often remain hidden, informal, sometimes illegal; and rarely in
line with standard development prescriptions. If we shift our gaze
from the capital cities to the regional centres and their
hinterlands, then a very different perspective emerges. These are
the places where pastoralists live. They have for centuries
struggled with drought, conflict and famine. They are resourceful,
entrepreneurial and innovative peoples. Yet they have been ignored
and marginalised by the states that control their territory and the
development agencies who are supposed to help them. This book
argues that, while we should not ignore the profound difficulties
of creating secure livelihoods in the Greater Horn of Africa, there
is much to be learned from development successes, large and small.
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars with
an interest in development studies and human geography, with a
particular emphasis on Africa. It will also appeal to development
policy-makers and practitioners.
Once again, the Horn of Africa has been in the headlines. And once
again the news has been bad: drought, famine, conflict, hunger,
suffering and death. The finger of blame has been pointed in
numerous directions: to the changing climate, to environmental
degradation, to overpopulation, to geopolitics and conflict, to aid
agency failures, and more. But it is not all disaster and
catastrophe. Many successful development efforts at 'the margins'
often remain hidden, informal, sometimes illegal; and rarely in
line with standard development prescriptions. If we shift our gaze
from the capital cities to the regional centres and their
hinterlands, then a very different perspective emerges. These are
the places where pastoralists live. They have for centuries
struggled with drought, conflict and famine. They are resourceful,
entrepreneurial and innovative peoples. Yet they have been ignored
and marginalised by the states that control their territory and the
development agencies who are supposed to help them. This book
argues that, while we should not ignore the profound difficulties
of creating secure livelihoods in the Greater Horn of Africa, there
is much to be learned from development successes, large and small.
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars with
an interest in development studies and human geography, with a
particular emphasis on Africa. It will also appeal to development
policy-makers and practitioners.
Examines the new challenges facing Africa's pastoral drylands from
large-scale investments and how this might affect the economic and
political landscape for the regions affected and their peoples.
More than ever before, the gaze of global investment has been
directed to the drylands of Africa, but what does this mean for
these regions' pastoralists and other livestock-keepers and their
livelihoods? Will those who have occupied drylands over generations
benefit from the developments, as claimed, or is this a new type of
territorialisation, exacerbating social inequality? This book's
detailed local studies of investments at various stages of
development - from Kenya, Tanzania, Somaliland, Ethiopia - explore,
for the first time, how large land, resource and infrastructure
projects shape local politics and livelihoods. Land and resources
use, based on ancestral precedenceand communal practices, and
embedded regional systems of trade, are unique to these areas, yet
these lands are now seen as the new frontier for development of
national wealth. By examining the ways in which large-scale
investmentsenmesh with local political and social relations, the
chapters show how even the most elaborate plans of financiers,
contractors and national governments come unstuck and are re-made
in the guise of not only states' grand modernist visions, but also
those of herders and small-town entrepreneurs in the pastoral
drylands. The contributors also demonstrate how and why large-scale
investments have advanced in a more piecemeal way as the challenges
of implementation have mounted. JEREMY LIND is Research Fellow at
the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex.
DORIS OKENWA holds a PhD in Anthropology from the London School of
Economics. IAN SCOONES is a Professorial Fellow at the IDS,
University of Sussex and co-director of the ESRC STEPS Centre.
Examines the new challenges facing Africa's pastoral drylands from
large-scale investments and how this might affect the economic and
political landscape for the regions affected and their peoples.
More than ever before, the gaze of global investment has been
directed to the drylands of Africa, but what does this mean for
these regions' pastoralists and other livestock-keepers and their
livelihoods? Will those who have occupied drylands over generations
benefit from the developments, as claimed, or is this a new type of
territorialisation, exacerbating social inequality? This book's
detailed local studies of investments at various stages of
development - from Kenya, Tanzania, Somaliland, Ethiopia - explore,
for the first time, how large land, resource and infrastructure
projects shape local politics and livelihoods. Land and resources
use, based on ancestral precedenceand communal practices, and
embedded regional systems of trade, are unique to these areas, yet
these lands are now seen as the new frontier for development of
national wealth. By examining the ways in which large-scale
investmentsenmesh with local political and social relations, the
chapters show how even the most elaborate plans of financiers,
contractors and national governments come unstuck and are re-made
in the guise of not only states' grand modernist visions, but also
those of herders and small-town entrepreneurs in the pastoral
drylands. The contributors also demonstrate how and why large-scale
investments have advanced in a more piecemeal way as the challenges
of implementation have mounted. JEREMY LIND is Research Fellow at
the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex.
DORIS OKENWA holds a PhD in Anthropology from the London School of
Economics. IAN SCOONES is a Professorial Fellow at the IDS,
University of Sussex and co-director of the ESRC STEPS Centre.
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