A comparison of two survey methods on pastoral Turkana migration patterns and their implications for development planning
1986
P. H. Fry | J. T. McCabe
This article indicates that most development programmes that involve pastoralists are failures becaue they are premised on a flawed understanding of how pastoralist systems function.The article indicates that:development projects in arid and semi-arid regions are usually based on the premise that pastoralists behave as a group. The geographical or macro approach to data collection reinforces this concept by collapsing incomplete individual behavior patterns into broad generalized categories which represent collective decisions and collaborative movesmicro-level studies suggest that this oversimplification can be misleading and may result in basic conceptual differences which influence the structure of development schemes along lines alien to the traditional pastoral systema hybrid approach would incorporate certain aspects of the micro-level approach into questions asked during a geographical survey would be ideal from a development standpointnotions of predicted behavior of pastoralists should be premised on the idea that people react to specific contexts
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