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Dynamics of Access to Pastoral Resources in a Farming Area (Western Burkina Faso): Unveiling Rights in Open Access Regimes Cover

Dynamics of Access to Pastoral Resources in a Farming Area (Western Burkina Faso): Unveiling Rights in Open Access Regimes

Open Access
|Oct 2019

Figures & Tables

Table 1

Interviews.

ActorsNº of interviewsType of information collected
Village authorities4Village history (migrations), rules of access to resources
Local farmer-herders31
    Whose livelihoods depend primarily on herding (Fulbe)14Rules of access to resources, personal access to pastoral resources, herd mobility, relations with other resource users
    Whose livelihoods depend primarily on farming17
Transhumant herders6
Cashew producers12Rules of access to resources (crop residues, cashew orchards etc.), relations with herders (damage to crops, etc.)
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Map 1

Poykoro: pastoral livelihoods under farming pressure (2017).

Table 2

Hohfeld’s legal relations (correlates).

A’sB’s
Static correlatesClaim-RightDuty
LibertyNo right
Dynamic correlatesPowerLiability
ImmunityNo power

[i] (after Hohfeld 1913, and Bromley 1989).

Table 3

Hohfeld’s legal relations (opposites).

A’sB’s
Static oppositesClaim-RightNo right
LibertyDuty
Dynamic oppositesPowerNo power
ImmunityLiability

[i] (after Hohfeld 1913, and Bromley 1989).

Table 4

Hohfeld’s legal correlative relations applied to access to pastoral resources.

Access to pastoral resourcesPrevailing type of relationHerders (A)Farmers (B)
RangelandStaticLibertyNo right
Conversion to agricultural landDynamicLiabilityPower
Forage in cultivated plots in the dry season and in orchards in the rainy seasonStaticLibertyNo right
Enclosure of cashew orchardsDynamicLiabilityPower
Ponds and pastoral wellsStaticLibertyNo right
Domestic wellsStaticDutyClaim-right

[i] Source: Authors.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.950 | Journal eISSN: 1875-0281
Language: English
Submitted on: Dec 19, 2018
Accepted on: May 25, 2019
Published on: Oct 30, 2019
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2019 Alexis Gonin, Geoffroy Filoche, Philippe Lavigne Delville, published by Ubiquity Press
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