Procedure_Part 5_Household Survey
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Celine Dutilly-Diane. (2/1/2004). Procedure_Part 5_Household Survey. Aleppo, Syrian Arab Republic: International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA).
Abstract
Considered as steppe and desert, the Badiah is the terrain of Bedouins since
hundreds of years. Those ones have developed many strategies to face the
erratic environment, and established over time laws to regulate the
exploitation of resources.
During the last century, many structural changes and several governmental
interventions came to transform deeply Bedouins strategies, notably in terms
of herding. The first one was probably the definition of official boundaries
inside the steppe, where Bedouins used to travel without any borders. The
following state interventions after the Independence - among them the
nationalization of the steppe, and more recently the ban of cultivation -
transformed deeply the institutional pattern in the Badiah and consequently
the breeding strategies of the Bedouins. Aside from political aspects, the
Syrian pastoral system is marked since the last decades by a strong increase
of the number sheep grazing in the Badiah, due to an increasing demand of
animal products. In addition, the abandon of camel breeding, and the
mechanization of transportation contributed to accelerate the degradation of
the rangelands.
Therefore there is a need today to better understand the rangeland
management system existing in Syria, and the socio economical mechanisms
that induce this system.
