Prospects for Pastoralism in Kazakstan and Turkmenistan - From State Farms to Private Flocks

This collection traces how pastoralists have coped with the challenges of change in their precarious position in a part of the world with a long-tradition of livestock keeping.

List of contents

1. 'We have seen two worlds': Impacts of Privatisation on People, Land and Livestock 2. Agrarian Reform and Privatisation in the Wider Asian Region: Comparison with Central Asia Part I: Pastoralists and Rangelands of Southeast Kazakstan 3.Transhumant Ecosystems: Fluctuations in Seasonal Pasture Productivity 4. Collapse of the Livestock Sector: A Catastrophic Convergence of Ecological Degradation, Economic Transition and Climate Change 5. Reconfiguring Property Rights and Land Use 6. New Patterns of Livestock Management: Constraints to Productivity 7. Contraction in Livestock Mobility Resulting from State Farm Re-organisation 8. Privatisation of Livestock Marketing and Emerging Socio-Economic Differentiation Part II: Pastoralists and Rangelands of the Kara Kum Desert, Turkmenistan 9. Shepherds and the State: Effects of Decollectivisation on Livestock Production Systems 10.The Limits of the Land: Pasture and Water Conditions 11. New Patterns of Livestock Management 12. The Costs and Returns of Change: Profiles of Production and Consumption by Pastoralists 13. Privatisation of Livestock Marketing

About the author

Carol Kerven is a Research Assistant at the Overseas Development Institute, London.

Summary

This collection traces how pastoralists have coped with the challenges of change in their precarious position in a part of the world with a long-tradition of livestock keeping.

Additional text

'This is an important book. It is one of the few ground-level studies of Central Asian society in the post-independence period.' - The Royal Society for Asian Affairs

Product details

• Authors: Carol Kerven Kerven
• Assisted by: Carol Kerven (Editor), Dr Carol Kerven (Editor), Kerven Carol (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2017
• EAN: 9781138996847
• ISBN: 978-1-138-99684-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Central Asia Research Forum; Central Asia Research Forum
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Rural communities, Rural communities / rural life