LEADER 03823nam 22005053a 450 001 9910262254403321 005 20250204000924.0 024 7 $a10.17875/gup2017-1072 035 $a(CKB)4100000002580447 035 $a(OAPEN)644871 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31546 035 $a(ScCtBLL)a6d4cdca-fbeb-4f48-a06d-6784bdfeb6bc 035 $a(OCoLC)1030818114 035 $a(oapen)doab31546 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000002580447 100 $a20250204i20172020 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auuuuu---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aPastoralism and Socio-technological Transformations in Northern Benin - Fulani Innovations in Pastoral Migration, Livelihood Diversification and Professional Association$fGeorges Djohy 210 $cUniversita?tsverlag Go?ttingen$d2017 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cUniversitätsverlag Göttingen,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (365 Pages) 311 08$a9783863953461 311 08$a3863953460 330 $aPastoralists throughout Africa face increasing pressures. In Benin, governmental development policies and programmes in crop farming are changing power relations between herders and farmers to favour the latter. How are the Fulani pastoralists responding to these threats to their existence? Georges Djohy explores the dynamics in local use of natural resources and in inter-ethnic relations resulting from development interventions. He combines the approaches of science and technology studies - looking at the co-construction of society and technology - and political ecology - looking at the power relations shaping the dynamics of economic, environmental and social change - so as to throw light on the forces of marginalisation, adaptation and innovation at work in northern Benin. Having worked there for many years, Djohy has been able to uncover gradual processes of socio-technological change that are happening "behind the scenes" of agricultural development involving mechanisation, herbicide use, tree planting, land registration and natural resource conservation. He reveals how farmers are using these interventions as "weapons" in order to gain more rights over larger areas of land, in other words, to support indigenous land grabbing from herders who had been using the land since decades for grazing. He documents how the Fulani are innovating to ensure their survival, e.g. by using new technologies for transport and communication, developing new strategies of livestock feeding and herd movement, and developing complementary sources of household income. The Fulani are organising themselves from local to national level to provide technological and socio-cultural services, manage conflicts and gain a stronger political voice, e.g. to be able to achieve demarcation of corridors for moving livestock through cultivated areas. They even use non-functioning mini-dairies - another example of development intervention - to demonstrate their modernity and to open up other opportunities to transform their pastoral systems. This book provides insights into normally hidden technical and social dynamics that are unexpected outcomes of development interventions. 606 $aSociety & social sciences$2bicssc 610 $aBenin 610 $agovernmental development policies 610 $aCFA franc 610 $aFula people 610 $aGogounou 610 $aLivestock 610 $aPastoralism 615 7$aSociety & social sciences 676 $a599.95 700 $aDjohy$b Georges$0897439 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910262254403321 996 $aPastoralism and Socio-technological Transformations in Northern Benin$93395593 997 $aUNINA