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Book launch: Pastoralism and Development in Africa

29th November 2012 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Free

Pastoralism book coverBook launch

PASTORALISM AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA: Dynamic Change at the Margins

edited by Andy Catley, Jeremy Lind and Ian Scoones

 29 November 2012
London House Large Common Room
Goodenough College
Mecklenburgh Square
London WC1N 2AB

6.00 pm, followed by refreshments

Limited places available. To register, email Harriet Dudley: [email protected]

Chaired by Dr Camilla Toulmin
Director, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Dr Jeremy Lind (Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex) and Prof Hussein Mahmoud (Pwani University College, Kenya) will present some key themes from the book. Prof Katherine Homewood (University College London) and Dr Zeremariam Fre (Executive Director, Pastoral and Environmental Network for the Horn of Africa – PENHA) will respond.  Followed by open discussion.

This event is held in association with the Royal African Society.

About the book

Once again, the Horn of Africa has been in the headlines. And once again the news has been bad: drought, famine, conflict, hunger, suffering and death. But the region is not characterised by disaster and catastrophe. If we shift our gaze from the capital cities to the regional centres and their hinterlands where pastoralists live, then a very different perspective of dynamic change at the margins emerges.

Pastoralism and Development in Africa reveals a booming livestock export trade; a flourishing private sector; growing investment and expanding towns; and the emergence of a class of entrepreneurs commanding a profitable market. Through twenty detailed empirical chapters, the book highlights diverse pathways of development, going beyond the standard ‘aid’ and ‘disaster’ narratives.

Copies of the book will be available to buy at a discount at the event.

For more information on the book, see our page on Pastoralism and Development in Africa.

To register to attend this event, email Harriet Dudley, STEPS Centre co-ordinator: [email protected]

Details

Date:
29th November 2012
Time:
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Cost:
Free

Venue

London House Large Common Room
Goodenough College, Mecklenburgh Square
London, WC1N 2AB United Kingdom
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Organiser

STEPS Centre
Email
h.dudley@ids.ac.uk
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