Abstract
Increasing climate variability in the Sahel provokes an earlier arrival of transhumant pastoralists in their host areas located in further south in West Africa's coastal countries. These areas witnessed an extremely rapid growth of their population due to the introduction of perennial and cash crops. In Côte d'Ivoire, this precarious situation has deteriorated substantially due to the sociopolitical crisis that rocked the country from 2002 through 2011.
As the rebellion of the Forces Nouvelles (FN) led to a retreat of the state and its administration in the area, the crisis also accelerated the transformation of institutions of natural resource management in northern Côte d'Ivoire. Indeed, the FN rebels established new rules for resource management, especially by regulating access to pastoral resources for transhumant pastoralists from the Sahel. These institutional dynamics caused a change in interactions between various actors in the governance of resources, aggravating conflicts between transhumant pastoralists and local farmers.
Using agro-pastoral resources as an entry point to analyze governance at the grassroot level, this study aims at understanding resource-use conflicts between herders and farmers stemming from changes in the governance of agro-pastoral areas.
Project Period
2015-2018
Supervisor
Prof. Dr. Till Förster, Francis Akindès
Funding
Stipendienkommission für Nachwuchskräfte aus Entwicklungsländern