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Bibliothèque political ecology of territoriality: territorialities in farmer–herder relationships in Northern Ghana

political ecology of territoriality: territorialities in farmer–herder relationships in Northern Ghana

political ecology of territoriality: territorialities in farmer–herder relationships in Northern Ghana

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Date of publication
Décembre 2014
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AGRIS:US201400103581
Pages
385-400

Fulani herder and farmer relationships in West Africa have always been troublesome as a result of farmers’ fundamental rejection of the herders’ inroads into their areas and also because of increased competition for available resources. In countries such as Ghana, local and even national campaigns have been launched to expel the herders but they persist. This case-study which utilised interviews and group discussions involving farmers and herders, sought to understand the dynamics and subtleties of herders’ resilience in an environment where natural resource access and use rights are tied to common property principles and where herders have no enshrined land and resource rights. Using territoriality as the analytical capsule, we found that the herders’ persistence is related to mainly non-territoriality where the goal is to influence relationships and resource access but not control area. Categorising their non-territorial expression into persuasive and aggressive forms, we provide a new platform for deconstructing farmer-herder relationships in the West African sub-region.

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Yembilah, Rita
Grant, Miriam

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