Pastoralism as a land use system is under recognized in terms of its contribution to food provision, livelihoods as well as to human security. This book is the first attempt to explore the dynamics of economic spaces of pastoral production and commodity systems for explicit South and North positionings. It develops and applies a new approach in combining agri-food, market and commodity chain perspectives with livelihood approaches. This enables new understandings of re-aligning exchange relations between the global south and the global north. The case studies presented open up new empirical insights in largely under-researched areas, such as Afghanistan, Chad, Tibet and Siberia and very recent changes in industrialized economies with major pastoral sectors. The book reveals new evidence and theoretical insights about significant changes in established producer-consumer relations in agriculture and food.
Author(s): Richard Le Heron, Jörg Gertel
Series: Economic Geography Series
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 361
Cover
Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Part I: Pastoralists in the Market
1 Introduction: Pastoral Economies Between Resilience and Exposure
2 Theoretical Plurality in Markets Conceived as Social and Political Institutions
3 Social Vulnerability and Livelihood Security
Part II: From Subsistence to Market Production: Post-Colonial Africa
4 Livestock Production and Pastoral Livelihood Security in Western Chad
5 Pastoral-Sedentary Market Relations in a War Situation: The Baqqāra-Nuba Case (Sudan)
6 Pastoral Integration in East African Livestock Markets
7 Livestock Marketing Chains in Northern Kenya: Re-Aligning Exchange Systems in Risky Environments
8 Market Spaces in a Globalising Periphery
Part III: From State to Market Production: Post-Socialist Contexts
9 Pastoralism in the Pamirs
10 Mongolian Pastoral Economy and its Integration into the World Market
11 Nomads and their Market Relations in Eastern Tibet’s Yushu Regions
12 Capitalism in the Tundra or Tundra in Capitalism?
Part IV: From Commercialised Production to Integrated Markets
13 Livestock Markets and Drought in Sub-Saharan Africa
14 The UK Sheep Industry
15 Market-Making and Livelihood Challenges in Contemporary New Zealand’s Dairy and Sheep
16 Contested Market-Relations Around Value and Values: Live Sheep Exports from Western Australia
17 Conclusion: Embodied Risks of Exchange Relations
Index
