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Panon Latcharote Khaled Al-Salem Anawat Suppasri Tanuspong Pokavanich Shinji Toda Yogeesha Jayaramu Abdullah Al-Enezi Alanoud Al-Ragum Fumihiko Imamura 《Natural Hazards》2018,92(1):127-143
This paper explores the ways that Mongolian pastoral-nomadic herders and supporting aid organizations anticipate, interpret, and respond to dzud, a form of winter storm that prevents livestock grazing and often results in large-scale herd deaths. Analysis is drawn from organizational reports, government speeches, and mass media that have been collected to give a complex, multi-faceted understanding of the collection, distribution, and interpretation of data pertaining to the social and scientific construction of this natural hazard. Using critical discourse analysis, this study asks how herder perspectives and needs have been incorporated into reports and action plans of international development organizations. The collected documents provide insight into the ways that knowledge is constructed, disseminated and valued among policy makers, development planners and herders. Additionally, the findings indicate disagreement between stakeholders as to when to declare a national emergency, and how to best help herders respond to the increasing frequency of dzud. While some organizations rely on traditional recovery mechanisms, others have turned to technological solutions, all aiming to assist herders in adequately responding to and recovering from one dzud before another occurs. From the analysis of policy proposals, this study aims to understand and inform the ways that international development programs, government officials, and herders work to preserve pasturelands and herding lifestyles threatened by dzud. 相似文献
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Matthew D. Turner 《Geoforum》2009,40(5):746-81
In dryland areas of the Africa, livestock play important economic roles as commodities, wealth stores, producers of products, and agents of environmental change. Conventional depictions of livestock economies in this region have focused (in support or against) on the need for greater engagement of livestock producers with markets supplying meat to urban areas. This paper argues this singular focus has led analysts to ignore two important aspects of livestock economies: livestock as a preferred store of wealth across a wide range of social groups and the need for specialized labor to manage these livestock across open pastures to maintain their productivity and limit their negative environmental impacts. In the West African Sahel, the capital-like nature of livestock wealth has become more clear with a growing fraction of the region’s livestock owned by investors with little connection to livestock husbandry. Livestock investments are maintained on a day-to-day basis by hired herders who facilitate access to ephemeral pastures and water. A particular concern is the changing geographies of livestock ownership and the herding labor in relationship to regional pastures (to economic and environmental ends). This relationship will be explored using the case study of the Maasina region of central Mali - a historically important livestock region, which is now undergoing significant labor emigration. Building from a long-term ethnographic engagement with local livestock owners and herders, the results of ownership surveys of livestock herds across a 14-year period and interviews of urban-based emigrants from the study area about investment decisions will be used to analyze the changing geographies of livestock investment and herding labor in the Maasina. 相似文献
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Fazel Amiri Abdul Rashid bin Mohamed Shariff Taybeh Tabatabaie Biswajeet Pradhan 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2014,7(3):1101-1114
Extensive livestock grazing even in unsuitable land has increasingly grown in most parts of semi-arid rangeland. Therefore, it is of paramount importance to identify suitable land for livestock grazing for optimum utilization while causing minimum impact to the environment. This paper adapted the schematic model based on the concepts presented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of suitability analysis for optimal grazing management in semi-arid rangeland in Iran. Factors affecting extensive grazing were determined and incorporated into the model. Semi-arid rangeland with variable such as climate and other agents were examined for common types of animal grazing and the advantages and limitations were elicited. Many ecosystem components affect land suitability for livestock grazing but due to time and funding restrictions, the most important and feasible elements were investigated. Within the model parameters, three submodels including water accessibility source, forage production, and erosion sensitivity were considered. Suitable areas at four levels of suitability were determined using geographic information systems. This suitability modeling approach was adopted due to its simplicity and the minimal time required for transforming and analyzing datasets. The most important reducing factors in model suitability were found to be: (a) land use and vegetation cover (in relation to soil erosion sensitivity), (b) the amount of the available forage in comparison with the total production, and (c) the existence of less palatability plants among the pasture plant species (forage production suitability). The results of the study would be beneficial to rangeland managers in devising measures more wisely to cope with the limitations and enhance the health and productivity of the rangelands. 相似文献
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Ranching and the new global range: Amazônia in the 21st century 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Robert Walker John Browder Cynthia Simmons Marcellus Caldas Sergio de Zen 《Geoforum》2009,40(5):732-745
This paper seeks to understand how the Brazilian Amazon, which many thought unsuitable for agricultural development, has yielded to a dynamic cattle economy in only a few decades. It does so by embedding the Thunian model of location rents within the regime of capital accumulation that has driven the Brazilian economy since the mid-20th century. The paper addresses policies that have created location rents in Amazônia, the effect of these rents on land managers, and the spatial implications of their behavior on forests. Thus, the paper connects macro-processes and structures to agents on the ground, in providing a political ecological explanation relevant to land change science. The policy discussion focuses on reductions in transportation costs, improvements in animal health, and monetary and trade reforms. To illustrate the impact of policy, the paper presents data on the geography of Amazonian herd expansion, on the growth of Amazonian exports, and on the profitability of the region’s cattle economy. It follows the empirical presentation with more abstract consideration of the spatial relations between cattle ranching and soy farming, and implications for deforestation. The paper concludes on a speculative note by considering the likelihood of forest transition in the region, given the transformation of Amazônia into a global resource frontier. 相似文献
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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. 相似文献
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本文在毛乌素沙地景观分类、制图及景观动态研究的基础上,分析了50年代以来毛乌素沙地荒漠化发展状况及其时空特征,并对其扩展原因进行了分析和探讨。结果表明,50年代以来,该地区荒漠化整体上处于迅速扩展之中,只是某些局部地方植被得到一定程度的恢复;荒漠化扩展存在明显的空间和时间差异：西北部纯牧区扩展速度远远高于东部和南部半农半牧地区,70年代末至90年代初扩展速度远远低于50年代末至70年代末;荒漠化的迅速扩展主要是由于不合理的人类活动造成的,气候波动也有一定影响。 相似文献
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家庭联产承包责任制实现了土地所有权和使用权的初步分离,使农民获得了相对独立的承包经营权,极大地调动了农民的生产积极性。然而,随着农村经济社会的发展,人地矛盾日益激化,土地的边际生产力已出现明显的递减趋势,土地小规模家庭经营,农业的比较利益大大下降;同时,农村的剩余劳动力涌向经济较发达的大中城市,城市化进程骤然加剧等,使得土地家庭承包经营这一土地制度逐渐显露出自身的缺陷。在稳定农村土地承包关系的前提下,促进农村土地流转,可以在一定程度上发挥土地的规模效益,促进农村经济社会的健康持续发展。 相似文献
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The questions of how land use change affects climate, and how climate change affects land use, require examination of societal and environmental systems across space at multiple scales, from the global climate to regional vegetative dynamics to local decision making by farmers and herders. It also requires an analysis of causal linkages and feedback loops between systems. These questions and the conceptual approach of the research design of the Climate-Land Interaction Project (CLIP) are rooted in the classical human-environment research tradition in Geography.This paper discusses a methodological framework to quantify the two-way interactions between land use and regional climate systems, using ongoing work by a team of multi-disciplinary scientists examining climate-land dynamics at multiple scales in East Africa. East Africa is a region that is undergoing rapid land use change, where changes in climate would have serious consequences for people’s livelihoods, and requiring new coping and land use strategies. The research involves exploration of linkages between two important foci of global change research, namely, land use/land cover (LULC) and climate change. These linkages are examined through modeling agricultural systems, land use driving forces and patterns, the physical properties of land cover, and the regional climate. Both qualitative and quantitative methods are being used to illustrate a diverse pluralism in scientific discovery. 相似文献
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B. N. Floyd Dr. 《GeoJournal》1982,6(5):433-442
The world's tropical rain forests are being cleared at an ever-increasing and alarming rate. If their destruction continues, such forests will virtually disappear over the next half century, with grave consequences to mankind.The major exploirers of the humid tropical forests are timber companies, also crop and livestock farmers. Arguably, the greatest threat come from the many millions of small-scale farmers. If sizeable islands of original rain forest are to be preserved for scientific study and balanced ecological utilization, the rising demands for timber, subsistencee crop and grazing land will need to be satisfied in ways other those currently practised.An overall goal is the integrated development of resources within areas of secondary tropical forest and savanna woodland. If small farmers are to be encouragedto remainin such areas, successful techniques need to be devised to ensure virtually continuous cropping. The strategy of utilizing fast-growing suitable trees as nutrient pumps and for branch mulching is described. The use of appropriate minitaturized equipment and zero tillage is also advocated.It is not intended that these and other measures should provide a permanent blueprint for more intensive small-scale farming in the humid tropics. The penetration of more sophisticated systems subsumed under the Green Revolution should continue. It may be Discovered ultimately that an amalgam of traditional and new practices will best achieve the objective of raising the rural poor of the Third World above the meageress and meanness of their present predicament. 相似文献
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The indigenous soil knowledge among the Fulani subsistence farmers in two villages of northern Burkina Faso is examined, analysed and assessed with the aim of evaluating its adequacy for sustaining soil fertility and for the appropriateness of tapping indigenous knowledge in development programmes. The analytical framework is a multidisciplinary approach combining soil science and anthropology. The results show a high degree of consistency between the science-based western soil classification and the Fulani soil classification although the routes of generation are different. The farmers are aware of and active in management of soil fertility based on their experience, but express no thorough understanding of the mechanisms of plant growth. The soil knowledge is applied in the farming strategies which, as a primary aim, seek to minimize the risk of harvest failure. However, the analysis also suggests that the knowledge is no part of a free-standing knowledge body which can be separated from the actual agricultural performance. The farmers express a general concern about the present state of the environment and degradation processes; however, there is no motivation to take active control of and manage the bush area. This is in contrast with the way millet cultivators actively manage their fields. An explanation of this is suggested by the division between the two Fulani ethnic subgroups, the FulBe who are the former masters and the RimayBe, the former slaves. 相似文献
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Robert Ugochukwu Onyeneke Christiana Ogonna Igberi Christian O. Uwadoka Jonathan Ogbeni Aligbe 《GeoJournal》2018,83(2):333-346
This paper explored the status of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) in southeast Nigeria using qualitative and quantitative methods in data collection. One hundred and sixty farmers were selected from the area. Also, focus group discussions were conducted. Data collected were subjected to qualitative analysis and logit regression. The study identified five broad and important practices relevant to CSA in southeast Nigeria, which include: adjusting agricultural production systems, mobility and social networks, farm financial management, diversification on and beyond the farm, and knowledge management and regulations. The determinants of CSA in southeast Nigeria include: education, income, credit, extension, livestock ownership, farming experience, land area cultivated, distance to the market and water resources, leadership position, risk orientation, gender, land ownership, household size, and mass media exposure. Government policies need to support research and development that develops and diffuses the climate-smart technologies to help farmers respond changes in climatic conditions. 相似文献
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M.S. Rasmussen R. James T. Adiyasuren P. Khishigsuren B. Naranchimeg R. Gankhuyag B. Baasanjargal 《GeoJournal》1999,47(4):563-571
Since 1990, Mongolia has experienced a radical change away from centralized livestock production to more traditional rangeland
management practices. As the herders now have increased access to the pastures, they need to be able to evaluate the sustainable
level of exploitation of the rangeland. This paper demonstrates how pertinent information on the state of the rangeland resources
can be made available to herdsmen by using a Geographical Information System (GIS). The focus is on the importance of having
a sound data and information framework when assessing rangeland resources. The three main requirements are: first, knowledge
of the production system; second, a natural resource inventory; and third, an assessment of the natural resource exploitation.
Workshops held in the field brought together herdsmen, administrators, scientists and project personnel to identify and discuss
issues of range management. From topographic maps, a digital elevation model was created using GIS, which together with a
recent land-cover map elaborated from a SPOT satellite image made it possible to map the important areas suitable for winter
grazing. The exact locations of the family winter settlements were recorded and linked to annual livestock statistics using
GIS to identify the areas being grazed and to calculate the stocking rates by household. It was shown for the administrative
unit of Arbayasgalan that the ratio of stocking rates to carrying capacity exceeded one, which indicates overstocking. However,
the uneven distribution of grazing pressure over the study area enabled the proposal of actions to mitigate serious overgrazing.
A discussion of range management practices was facilitated by providing the herdsmen with information on the extent and location
of the problem.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Laïla Smith 《Geoforum》2008,39(1):236-251
This article presents a case study of the World Bank’s relationship with South Africa to argue that the Bank uses its knowledge brokering role as a device to facilitate the development of a lending relationship with countries that may initially be reluctant to enter into this kind of engagement. This article reviews the World Bank’s 10-year effort to develop a lending relationship with South Africa. The Bank inserted itself into the country in the early 1990s at the outset of its democratic transformation. Throughout the decade, South Africa acceded to the Bank’s policy interventions through technical assistance rather than through a concerted lending programme. In doing so, South Africa internalized the Bank’s market-driven political economy framework underlying its technical assistance programme. The country’s application of the Bank’s knowledge has had questionable outcomes for its development agenda. While the Bank’s ‘expert’ interventions may have offered valuable technical insights, it neglected the politics of distribution that are embedded in a more localized knowledge formation process. The result has led to the instrumentalization of local governance and undermined the engagement of civil society actors in the construction of a democratic state at the local level. 相似文献
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Juan Porta Jorge Parapar Paula García Gracia Fernández Juan Touriño Ramón Doallo Francisco Ónega Inés Santé Pablo Díaz David Miranda Rafael Crecente 《Earth Science Informatics》2013,6(4):209-226
Land abandonment and stagnation of rural markets in the last few years have become one of the main concerns of rural administrations. The use of Web and GIS (Geographic Information System) technologies can help to mitigate the effects of these problems. This paper pro-poses a novel Web-GIS tool with spatial capabilities for the dynamization of rural land markets by encouraging the transfer of land from owners to farmers through the leasing of plots. The system, based on open source software, offers information about the properties, their environment and their owners. It uses standards for handling the geographic information and for communicating with external data sources. This system was used as the basis for the development of SITEGAL, the tool for the management of the Land Bank of Galicia (www.bantegal.com/sitegal). SITEGAL has been operational since 2007 obtaining benefits for both administration and users (farmers and land owners), and promoting the e-Government. 相似文献
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土地征收工作对保障建设、保护耕地、保障被征地农民的利益具有重要作用。随着经济社会发展,土地征收的制度设计出现了一些问题,该文通过探讨分析土地征收在制度层面的缺陷,提出了征地制度改革的一些对策建议。 相似文献
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Alistair Fraser 《Geoforum》2007,38(2):299-311
Market-Led Agrarian Reform (MLAR), which is advocated by the World Bank and is being implemented in various contexts around the world, is a more neo-liberal approach to land reform than that we have seen implemented in the past. MLAR principles have underpinned South Africa’s land reform programme, being based on the ‘willing-seller, willing-buyer’ principle, which guarantees market-related prices to sellers. Evidence presented in this paper, however, raises serious questions about the extent to which the South African government has held on to MLAR principles. Specifically, the paper argues that South Africa’s peculiar geo-historical context has in some instances led the government to fuse market-led approaches with more authoritarian interventions that dictate to land reform beneficiaries how the land will be used. A case in point is the government’s approach to the restitution of land rights to communities dispossessed from the Levubu area of Limpopo province. As the paper illustrates, the government has imposed on the intended beneficiaries a so-called ‘strategic partnership’ between them and agribusinesses. Although the government touts the approach as a way to protect the commercial viability of the land and to transfer skills from white farmers to the beneficiaries, the terms of the Levubu solution may turn out to be less than favourable for the beneficiaries. 相似文献
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Mapping from air photos reveals coinsiderable urbanization of the Okanagan fruitlands between 1966 and 1981. For a number of years reduced areas of fruitland have been compensated for by increased productivity, but the limit of increased productivity has nearly been reached and there are no significant amounts of new land to be planted to fruit. The British Columbia Land Commission Act, with its Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) programme was a bold attempt at preventing the urbanization of prime agricultural land in British Columbia. Undoubtedly the urban conversion of the Okanagan Valley fruitlands has been slowed from what would have occurred without the ALR programme. Nevertheless, sequential maps and records of appeal applications indicate that considerable urban conversion of fruitland is still occurring. There is also evidence that the current British Columbia government's commitment to the ALR programme is waning. If the future urban development patterns and political climate continue along recent trends, it is difficult to be optimistic about preserving the Okanagan fruitlands for future generations. 相似文献
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Résumé Les traces de Cu, Pb, Cd, Ni et Zn ont été dosées par polarographie sur une centaine d'échantillons du Trias et du Jurassique. La confrontation des résultats obtenus et des faits géologiques tend à démontrer que la répartition des oligoéléments a été essentiellement déterminée par les paramètres qui définissent l'environnement et le milieu de dépôt. En ce qui concerne l'environnement de dépôt, le comportement différent lors de l'altération du Ni d'une part, et du Zn et du Cd d'autre part, s'interprète très bien par la théorie du champ des ligands. En ce qui concerne le milieu de dépôt, l'étude plus particulière de l'Hettangien qui localement recèle des concentrations de blende et de galène, démontre que l'on passe sans discontinuité brutale du domaine des traces à celui des concentrations et ceci, en relation avec l'accentuation du caractère réducteur du milieu. De plus, les formes minéralogiques d'entraînement des cinq éléments dosés, ainsi que le pH et Ia teneur en soufre (sous ses différentes formes: S=, HS– et H2S) du milieu de dépôt et du milieu de piégeage sont déterminées à l'aide des calculs de corrélation, des règles de coprécipitation et d'adsorption et des diagrammes log S—pH.
Polarographic quantitative analysis of Cu, Pb, Cd, Ni and Zn in one hundred Triassic and Jurassic samples show that the repartition of these trace elements has been mainly fixed by the parameters of the depositional environment. The differences between the behaviour of Ni, Zn and Cd during alteration is explained mainly by the ligand field theory. The study of the Hettangian sediments especially those containing local ZnS and PbS deposits show that there is no discontinuity in the repartition of the studied elements from the non-mineralized sediments to the mineralized area, but shows a regular variation with increasing reducing character of the depositional medium. The mineralogical forms of coprecipitation or adsorption of these elements, the pH and the concentration of the total sulfur (under the form S=, HS– and H2S) of the normal depositional medium and of the reducing zone are determined by using correlation calculations, coprecipitation and adsorption rules and log S—pH diagrammes.相似文献
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Ariell Ahearn 《Natural Hazards》2018,92(1):165-181
Studies of mobile pastoralist livelihoods have shown that a variety of socio-technical practices have been developed to achieve reliable outputs from livestock in variable arid and semi-arid environments. This paper builds upon the concept of pastoralists as high-reliability seekers rather than risk-averse and makes a case for understanding Mongolian herders as well adapted to livestock production in highly variable climatic conditions within a certain threshold of risk and uncertainty. This system fails, however, during instances of high uncertainty and covariate risk such as in cases of the natural hazard dzud, which requires individual households to make significant cash investments in risk management. It forwards the idea that investing in local government—soum and bag level—administrative capacity and infrastructure is needed to build system resilience to covariate risk. Based on ethnographic research in rural Bayankhongor, this paper interrogates how dzud interfaces with socio-economic factors amongst pastoralists in central west Mongolia. 相似文献