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Why States Still Destroy Pastoralism and How They Can Learn That in Their Own Interest They Should Not
2013
Overview
Behnke and Kerven find that large-scale, irrigated cotton or sugar cane production yields less per hectare than simply leaving the land to the pastoralists, not even counting the losses of surface suitable for any kind of crop or fodder production caused by forms of irrigation that lead to increased soil salinity. The costs include the following: hostility between pastoralists and large farmers (a 'security' issue, which, like all such issues, also has a financial side); decline of the remaining, congested rangelands; high costs of supplementary fodder, a factor that squeezes out small herd owners; and intensive litigation about 'trespassing', caused by the expansion of agriculture into long-established but no longer properly enforced livestock corridors, which, after having been reduced from grazing areas to mere routes, are now often blocked completely by cultivated fields.
