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Goat husbandry in argan forests: land use conflicts |
Cahiers Agricultures. Volume 14, Number 5, 447-53, Septembre - Octobre 2005, Étude originale
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Author(s) : Alain Bourbouze, Ahmed El Aïch |
Summary : Local argan forests provides the essential livelihood for large parts of their surrounding population. The management of natural resources is founded on land and its use: private lands, generally cultivated, and forest lands, sometimes de facto privatised, sometimes used collectively. Four stakeholders, with opposite or complementary interests, are involved in the management and exploitation of argan forestland: the Forestry Service, livestock (mainly goat) farmers, local elected officials, and local authorities. Goat production plays an important role in the rural economy, and goats are a key element of the agricultural (including crops, livestock and forestry products) system. Local diets, which depend in part on food from argan forests, depend on many factors of variation, notably social conditions of access to this land. When breeders’ access rights are legally recognized, these farmers manage local resources, private or collective, effectively through a social organization that integrates customary law, national forest law and subtle husbandry practices. It appears that argan forests are not really “natural” forests but social products. |
Keywords : livestock farming, farming systems |
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