ingest cdrApp 2018-08-23T16:47:50.273Z d39a25df-af15-48e9-aec2-c9af81a997a2 modifyDatastreamByValue RELS-EXT fedoraAdmin 2018-08-23T16:48:41.232Z Setting exclusive relation addDatastream MD_TECHNICAL fedoraAdmin 2018-08-23T16:48:52.334Z Adding technical metadata derived by FITS addDatastream MD_FULL_TEXT fedoraAdmin 2018-08-23T16:49:15.170Z Adding full text metadata extracted by Apache Tika modifyDatastreamByValue RELS-EXT fedoraAdmin 2018-08-23T16:49:37.449Z Setting exclusive relation modifyDatastreamByValue MD_DESCRIPTIVE cdrApp 2018-09-27T20:41:25.014Z modifyDatastreamByValue MD_DESCRIPTIVE cdrApp 2019-03-21T21:16:45.471Z ELISABETH NEBIE Author Department of Anthropology College of Arts and Sciences Documenting Farmer-Herder Livelihoods, Challenges and Adaptations in the Center-South Region of Burkina Faso This dissertation treats different, but related subjects, in three distinct papers. Findings result from interviews, focus groups, participatory community mapping and GPS data collected intermittently over a period of 20 months in the Sondré-Est Pastoral Zone area in the Center-South Region of Burkina Faso. The first paper examines the nature of farmer-herder conflicts and where they occur. Following the major droughts of the 1970s in Burkina Faso, the government resettled herders and farmers from northern drylands in more fertile areas in the southern river valleys of the country. Local chiefs – ruling over agricultural communities – conceded land to migrants. This study integrates spatial analysis with narratives to contextualize contemporary land use tensions between resettled herders and resettled and autochthonous farmers. It found that conflicts occur in very particular places along the border where key resources such as water are located. This offers an important methodological contribution to political ecology. While most studies on herder-farmer relations have focused on conflicts, the second paper explores the nature of farmer-herder cooperation as both groups converge toward agro-pastoralism. Sondré-Est is ideal for this study as it has ethnically distinct herders and farmers who inhabit the same area. They are adapting to similar climatic stresses in very different ways. People from both groups exchange resources and technical knowledge. This study allows for comparisons within and between farmer and herder groups, which is rare in climate adaptation research. The third paper delves deeper into within-group comparisons. This paper looks more precisely at gender differences in land use management. It shows the contrast between women’s increased leadership in household decision-making as an adaptation to social and ecological changes and their persistent under-representation in community management committees. This paper highlights that the existence of quotas and parity policies coming from international donors does not guarantee the equal access of men and women to decision-making processes regarding land resources management. It argues that the exclusion of women from community land management results from the divide between local values and top-down state policies aiming for gender parity. This study questions the State’s ability to regulate its constituents at the local level. Spring 2018 2018 Geographic information science and geodesy African studies Climate change Agro-pastoralism, Climate change, Farmers, Gender, Herders, Maps eng Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School Degree granting institution Anthropology Colin West Thesis advisor Paul Leslie Thesis advisor Todd Crane Thesis advisor Charles Price Thesis advisor Emily Burrill Thesis advisor text ELISABETH NEBIE Creator Department of Anthropology College of Arts and Sciences Documenting Farmer-Herder Livelihoods, Challenges and Adaptations in the Center-South Region of Burkina Faso This dissertation treats different, but related subjects, in three distinct papers. Findings result from interviews, focus groups, participatory community mapping and GPS data collected intermittently over a period of 20 months in the Sondré-Est Pastoral Zone area in the Center-South Region of Burkina Faso. The first paper examines the nature of farmer-herder conflicts and where they occur. Following the major droughts of the 1970s in Burkina Faso, the government resettled herders and farmers from northern drylands in more fertile areas in the southern river valleys of the country. Local chiefs – ruling over agricultural communities – conceded land to migrants. This study integrates spatial analysis with narratives to contextualize contemporary land use tensions between resettled herders and resettled and autochthonous farmers. It found that conflicts occur in very particular places along the border where key resources such as water are located. This offers an important methodological contribution to political ecology. While most studies on herder-farmer relations have focused on conflicts, the second paper explores the nature of farmer-herder cooperation as both groups converge toward agro-pastoralism. Sondré-Est is ideal for this study as it has ethnically distinct herders and farmers who inhabit the same area. They are adapting to similar climatic stresses in very different ways. People from both groups exchange resources and technical knowledge. This study allows for comparisons within and between farmer and herder groups, which is rare in climate adaptation research. The third paper delves deeper into within-group comparisons. This paper looks more precisely at gender differences in land use management. It shows the contrast between women’s increased leadership in household decision-making as an adaptation to social and ecological changes and their persistent under-representation in community management committees. This paper highlights that the existence of quotas and parity policies coming from international donors does not guarantee the equal access of men and women to decision-making processes regarding land resources management. It argues that the exclusion of women from community land management results from the divide between local values and top-down state policies aiming for gender parity. This study questions the State’s ability to regulate its constituents at the local level. Geographic information science and geodesy African studies Climate change Agro-pastoralism; Climate change; Farmers; Gender; Herders; Maps Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School Degree granting institution Anthropology Colin West Thesis advisor Paul Leslie Thesis advisor Todd Crane Thesis advisor Charles Price Thesis advisor Emily Burrill Thesis advisor 2018 2018-05 eng text ELISABETH NEBIE Creator Department of Anthropology College of Arts and Sciences This dissertation treats different, but related subjects, in three distinct papers. Findings result from interviews, focus groups, participatory community mapping and GPS data collected intermittently over a period of 20 months in the Sondré-Est Pastoral Zone area in the Center-South Region of Burkina Faso. The first paper examines the nature of farmer-herder conflicts and where they occur. Following the major droughts of the 1970s in Burkina Faso, the government resettled herders and farmers from northern drylands in more fertile areas in the southern river valleys of the country. Local chiefs – ruling over agricultural communities – conceded land to migrants. This study integrates spatial analysis with narratives to contextualize contemporary land use tensions between resettled herders and resettled and autochthonous farmers. It found that conflicts occur in very particular places along the border where key resources such as water are located. This offers an important methodological contribution to political ecology. While most studies on herder-farmer relations have focused on conflicts, the second paper explores the nature of farmer-herder cooperation as both groups converge toward agro-pastoralism. Sondré-Est is ideal for this study as it has ethnically distinct herders and farmers who inhabit the same area. They are adapting to similar climatic stresses in very different ways. People from both groups exchange resources and technical knowledge. This study allows for comparisons within and between farmer and herder groups, which is rare in climate adaptation research. The third paper delves deeper into within-group comparisons. This paper looks more precisely at gender differences in land use management. It shows the contrast between women’s increased leadership in household decision-making as an adaptation to social and ecological changes and their persistent under-representation in community management committees. This paper highlights that the existence of quotas and parity policies coming from international donors does not guarantee the equal access of men and women to decision-making processes regarding land resources management. It argues that the exclusion of women from community land management results from the divide between local values and top-down state policies aiming for gender parity. This study questions the State’s ability to regulate its constituents at the local level. Geographic information science and geodesy African studies Climate change Agro-pastoralism; Climate change; Farmers; Gender; Herders; Maps Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School Degree granting institution Colin West Thesis advisor Paul Leslie Thesis advisor Todd Crane Thesis advisor Charles Price Thesis advisor Emily Burrill Thesis advisor 2018 2018-05 eng text NEBIE_unc_0153D_17974.pdf uuid:b0f5b040-3325-48d1-a43a-9be469baac44 2020-08-23T00:00:00 2018-06-28T21:55:28Z proquest application/pdf 1212572