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Current Social and Rangeland Access Trends among Pastoralists in the Western Algerian Steppe
- Source :
- Land, Vol 10, Iss 674, p 674 (2021), Land, Land, MDPI, 2021, 10 (7), pp.674. ⟨10.3390/land10070674⟩, Volume 10, Issue 7
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2021.
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Abstract
- International audience; In the western Algerian steppe, the public authorities have carried out actions aimed at rural development (agricultural development programs) and combating desertification (grazing reserves) to counter the significant and rapid loss of vegetation cover of pastures by overgrazing, and the consequent impacts on local livelihoods. In the Rogassa area, these actions have impacted land tenure and the ancestral and collective way of land use and access. These changes have caused transformations in lifestyle and pasture management. This research aims to characterize how such changes are affecting local pastoralists and what their perceptions are about them. A selective sampling of 150 agropastoral households was carried out by interviewing their heads, analyzing socioeconomic, land tenure and government perception variables. Most agropastoralists access land under tribal tenure, conditioned by local social structures. Pastures are prevailingly perceived by pastoralists as insufficient, and the perception of grazing reserves is largely negative. Pastoralists are worried about land degradation and declining grazing lands, and are looking for solutions and alternatives. However, state interventions have been uncoordinated and have not considered their customary land rights. The generalized awareness of environmental deterioration points to the need for better communication and intervention strategies to be developed by authorities in the future that involve the inhabitants of these lands.
- Subjects :
- rangeland access
laitumet
aavikoituminen
media_common.quotation_subject
Pastoralism
land tenure
5143 Social and cultural anthropology
maankäyttö
yhteismaa
010501 environmental sciences
01 natural sciences
pastoral society
kehitysohjelmat
0601 history and archaeology
Overgrazing
Land tenure
agropastoralists
paimentolaiset
1172 Environmental sciences
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Nature and Landscape Conservation
media_common
2. Zero hunger
livelihood transformation
Global and Planetary Change
060101 anthropology
Ecology
Land use
Agroforestry
land degradation
paimentolaiskulttuurit
[SDV.SA.AEP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Agriculture, economy and politics
Agriculture
06 humanities and the arts
Pastoral society
15. Life on land
maanomistus
development programs
Geography
Desertification
5142 Social policy
519 Social and economic geography
Algeria
Land degradation
paimentolaisuus
Customary land
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 2073445X
- Volume :
- 10
- Issue :
- 674
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Land
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0910557222beb8df444f236271879edf