Conference name, dates, place
International Conference on Contemporary Development Issues in Ethiopia, August 16-18, 2001, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Document Type
Paper
Presentation Date
8-2001
Abstract
Communal grazing lands are important sources of livestock feed in developing countries (ILRI, 1998). In the presence of sufficient demand for livestock or livestock products, unrestricted access to the grazing lands will result in overexploitation of the resource and the scarcity rent of the resource remains unappropriated. Each individual user of the resource enjoys the full benefit of her use of the resource but bears only a fractional part of the cost. As a result, the traditional uncontrolled and free grazing system in many developing countries has caused severe degradation of the grazing lands.
WMU ScholarWorks Citation
Gebremedhin, Berhanu; Pender, John; and Tesfay, Girmay, "Community Resource Management: The Case of Grazing Lands in Northern Ethiopia" (2001). International Conference on African Development Archives. 49.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/africancenter_icad_archive/49