Renewing Herds through Livestock Trades: Changes in Cattle Keeping under Population Pressure in the Mbozi Plateau, Tanzania

• YAMAMOTO Kana

  Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University

抄録

In the semi-arid areas of Africa and surrounding areas, livestock have brought various benefits to agricultural people. However, population growth has caused land use competition between crop fields and livestock pastures. This paper argues how this competition was mitigated by the Nyiha farmers in the Mbozi Plateau, Tanzania. By the end of the 1970s crop fields covered almost all the area, except seasonal wetlands, and farmers’ cattle herd size shrank. The cultural significance that the cattle carried for social interactions diminished, such as for bridewealth, but cattle for draft power remains essential in agriculture. Gradually the farmers shifted to raising smaller herds in which bulls and oxen comprised the majority, which in turn brought difficulty for renewing the herds. However, transactions with cattle traders provided a solution: the farmers could obtain young cattle from traders in exchange for old bulls and oxen to be consumed as meat. This way, the farmers have sustained their agricultural system that depends largely on cattle draft power under the dense population pressure.

収録刊行物

• African Study Monographs

  African Study Monographs 38 (1), 51-62, 2017-03

  京都大学アフリカ地域研究資料センター

キーワード

• Population pressure
• Ox-drawn plow
• Livestock trader
• Barter transaction.

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390009224844023936
• NII論文ID: 120005997869
• NII書誌ID: AA10626444
• DOI: 10.14989/218896
• HANDLE: 2433/218896
• ISSN: 02851601
• 本文言語コード: en
• データソース種別:
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  • IRDB
  • CiNii Articles
  • KAKEN
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