@article{fdi:010077178,
  title = {{D}ynamics of access to pastoral resources in a farming area ({W}estern {B}urkina {F}aso) : unveiling rights in open access regimes},
  author = {{G}onin, {A}. and {F}iloche, {G}eoffroy and {L}avigne {D}elville, {P}hilippe},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{S}everal misunderstandings obscure the understanding of access to pastoral resources in farming areas of {W}est {A}frica. {F}irstly, pastoral resources are often considered as commons, whereas they are mostly based on open access. {S}econdly, these open access regimes are under-studied and suffer from a poor understanding of what is a "right" in such regimes. {T}his is an important issue, because grazing resources are disappearing in farming regions while fields for crops are extending, and because herders' rights do not protect them from this adverse change in land use. {G}rounded on field work in western {B}urkina {F}aso, this article specifies herders' rights of access in the area by drawing upon the concepts forged by {W}esley {N}ewcomb {H}ohfeld (1913). {T}his {A}merican legal scholar sees rights as a relational issue, not as individual or collective entitlements. {H}is analytical framework has been influential since the beginning of the 20th century and proves to be relevant to highlight farmers-herders relations. {T}he article demonstrates that herders benefit from liberty of access rather than rights in the strictest sense of the word. {A}ccess to pastoral resources is weak because herders are subject to farmers' power to change their land use from pastoral to agricultural.},
  keywords = {{L}and rights ; {O}pen access ; {P}astoralism ; {W}est {A}frica ; herders/farmers relations ; {H}ohfeld ; {BURKINA} {FASO}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{I}nternational {J}ournal of the {C}ommons},
  volume = {13},
  numero = {2},
  pages = {1049--1060},
  ISSN = {1875-0281},
  year = {2019},
  DOI = {10.5334/ijc.950},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010077178},
}