PASTORALIST MOBILITY ALONG THE SUDANESE ETHIOPIAN BORDERLAND: TOWARDS COOPERATIVE LAND MANAGEMENT

IF 1.1 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY
H. Sulieman, Adam Babekir, Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed
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This study followed an interdisciplinary mixed approach that consisted of social research methods and geospatial technology to investigate the livestock mobility of four pastoralist groups from Sudan and two Ethiopian pastoralist groups who fled to Sudan due to the conflict in the Tigray region. The study area is a shared borderland located between the two countries and is part of Gadarif State in Sudan and the Tigray and Amhara regions in Ethiopia. The findings of the study showed that there are diverse types of pastoral mobility in the borderland, ranging from short and circular movement to wide and directional type of mobility in response to seasonal variations, the spread of mechanised farming and the eruption of insecurity events. Despite facing numerous challenges including the governments’ restrictions on cross-border movement and the prevalence of looting and rustling, trans-boundary mobility is practised by most pastoralist groups in the borderland. Pastoralist leaders are playing an important role in facilitating cross-border mobility. The recent conflict in the Tigray region forced many Ethiopian pastoralists to flee to Sudan with their animals, and they have had to cope with this situation by reducing the number of head they own and limiting their mobility to a more confined area. Despite competing claims by both governments, there is a pressing need for a cooperative land management policy applying soft border arrangements that incorporate customary land use rights for pastoralists from both sides, instead of the hardline border policies currently in place. This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ .
苏丹-埃塞俄比亚边境地区牧民的流动性:实现土地合作管理
本研究采用跨学科混合方法,包括社会研究方法和地理空间技术,调查苏丹四个牧民群体和因提格雷地区冲突而逃往苏丹的两个埃塞俄比亚牧民群体的牲畜流动情况。研究地区是位于两国之间的共同边境地区,是苏丹加达里夫州和埃塞俄比亚提格雷和阿姆哈拉地区的一部分。研究结果表明,边境地区的牧民流动类型多种多样,有短距离的循环流动,也有因季节变化、机械化耕作的普及和不安全事件的爆发而进行的大范围定向流动。尽管面临诸多挑战,包括政府对跨境流动的限制以及抢劫和偷盗行为的盛行,但边境地区的大多数牧民群体仍在进行跨境流动。牧民领袖在促进跨境流动方面发挥着重要作用。最近在提格雷地区发生的冲突迫使许多埃塞俄比亚牧民带着牲畜逃往苏丹,他们不得不通过减少牲畜头数和将流动限制在更小范围内来应对这种情况。尽管两国政府提出了相互竞争的主张,但仍迫切需要一项合作性的土地管理政策,采用软边界安排,将双方牧民的传统土地使用权纳入其中,而不是采用目前实行的强硬边界政策。 本文采用 CC BY-NC 4.0 许可协议公开发表:https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 。
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Nomadic Peoples
Nomadic Peoples ANTHROPOLOGY-
CiteScore
1.70
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11.10%
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19
期刊介绍: Nomadic Peoples is an international journal published for the Commission on Nomadic Peoples, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Its primary concerns are the current circumstances of all nomadic peoples around the world and their prospects. Its readership includes all those interested in nomadic peoples—scholars, researchers, planners and project administrators.
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