Pastoral Morocco: Globalizing Scapes of Mobility and Insecurity

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Jörg Gertel, Ingo Breuer
Reichert, 2007 - Business & Economics - 257 pages
Pastoral Morocco explores the mobility of people and livestock in the context of neo-liberal globalization. Mobility is defined as a strategy to maintain and enhance access to resources, and hence comprehended as a strategy of pastoralists to cope with insecurity and new risks. Pastoral livelihoods in Morocco are, as the authors point out, increasingly shaped by processes unfolding outside the realm of animal production, for instance by dynamics of labor migration, changing property rights, and new means of communication. This volume examines local consequences of agro-pastoral restructuring. It investigates, for example, the invention of pastoral cooperatives, analyzes territorial changes triggered by urbanization and new spaces of enterprises, assesses the importance of cross border trade and sheep-commodity chains, scrutinizes the complexity and vulnerability of livelihood portfolios and it ultimately inquires the genealogy of conflicts over pastures. Pastoral Morocco draws on intensive empirical fieldwork and captures the regional diversities of the country. It is the first English language volume that combines Moroccan and European expertise about the changing world of mobility and insecurity that Moroccan pastoralists inhabit.

Contents

History of Mobility and Livestock Production in Morocco
31
Neoliberalism Environmentalism and Agricultural Restructuring in
61
Social Transformation and Sedentarization in the Eastern Moroccan
85
Eastern Moroccan Sheep Meat Commodity Chains
107
Animal Production Herd Mobility and Rangeland Access in the
133
VI
149
Livelihood Security and Mobility in the High Atlas Mountains
165
Pastoral Livelihood Strategies in the Draa and the Souss
181
Social Lines of Conflict between Pastoralism and Agriculture in the
193
But how?
211
Bibliography
229
Lists of Maps Figures and Tables
256
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