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[1] Abel N and Blaikie P. . 1990. . “‘Land Degradation, Stocking Rates, and Conservation Policies in the Communal Rangelands of Botswana and Zimbabwe’. ”. London : : ODI. .

[2] ARD. . 1992. . “‘Decentralization and Local Autonomy: Conditions for Achieving Sustainable Natural Resource Management’. ”. In Decentralization: Finance and Management Project . , Burlington, Vermont , , USA: : USAID/Associates for Rural Development. .

[3] Behnke R, Scoones I and Kervan C. . 1993. . Range Ecology at Disequilibrium . , London : : ODI. .

[4] Bernstein H. . 1990. . “Taking the part of peasants? ”. In The Food Question . , Edited by: Bernstein H, Crow B, Mackintosh M and Martin C. . London : : Earthscan. .

[5] Beny S. . 1993. . No Condition is Permanent: The Social Dynamics of Agrarian Change in Sub‐Sahran Africa . , Madison : : University of Wisconsin Press. .

[6] Bromley D. . 1991. . Environment and Economy: Property Rights and Public Policy . , Oxford : : Blackwell. .

[7] Bundy C. . 1979. . The Rise and Fall of the South African Peasantry . , London : : Heinemann. .

[8] CCD. . 1995. . “United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification; text with annexes. ”. Geneva : : Information Unit for Conventions, UN Environment Programme. .

[9] Diemer G and van der Laan E. . 1987. . L'Irrigation au Sahel . , Wageningen : : CTA. .

[10] Dreze J and Sen A. . 1989. . Hunger and Public Action . , Oxford : : Clarendon Press. .

[11] Hill P. . 1963. . The Migrant Cocoa Farmers of Southern Ghana . , Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press. .

[12] Lane C and Moorehead R. . 1994. . “‘New Directions in Rangeland and Resource Tenure and Policy’. ”. In hiving with Uncertainty: New Directions in Pastoral Development in Africa . , Edited by: Scoones I. . London : : IT Publications. .

[13] Leach M and Mearns R. . 1992. . “‘Poverty and Environment in Developing Countries: an Overview Study’. ”. In Global Environmental Change Initiative Programme . , Swindon : : Economic and Social Research Council. .

[14] Leach M, Mearns R and Scoones I. . 1997. . “‘Environmental Entitlements: a Framework for Understanding the Institutional Dynamics of Environmental Change’. ”. Brighton : : IDS. .

[15] Mearns R. . ‘Environmental Entitlements, a Framework for Analysing the Political Economy of Poverty and Environmental Change in the South’. In: . paper presented at workshop of the Environment, Resources and Sustainable Development Study Group of the Development Studies Association; . June 4– 1993 ; . London : : SOAS. .

[16] Moorhead R. . 1989. . “‘Changes Taking Place in Common Property Resource Management in the Inland Delta of Mali’. ”. In Common Property Resources: Ecology and Community‐based Sustainable Development . , Edited by: Berkes F. . London : : IUCN/Belhaven Press. .

[17] North D. . 1990. . Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance . , Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press. .

[18] Ostrom E. . 1990. . Governing the Commons: the Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action . , New York : : CUP. .

[19] Keohane R and Ostrom E. . 1995. . Local Commons and Global Interdependence . , London : : Sage. .

[20] Scoones I. . 1994. . Living with Uncertainty: New Directions in Pastoral Development in Africa . , London : : IT Publications. .

[21] Southgate C and Hulme D. . 1996a. . “‘Land, Water and Local Governance in Kajiado: A District Overview’. ”. In Rural Resources, Rural Livelihoods Working Paper No. 3 . , University of Manchester, Institute for Development Policy and Management. .

[22] 1996b. . “‘Land, Water and Local Governance in a Kenyan Wetland in Dryland: The Kimana Group Ranch and its Environs’. ”. In Rural Resources, Rural Livelihoods Working Paper No.4 . , University of Manchester: Institute for Development Policy and Management. .

[23] Snidal D. . 1995. . “‘The Politics of Scope: Endogenous Actors, Heterogeneity and Institutions’. ”. In Local Commons and Global Interdependence . , Edited by: Keohane R and Ostrom E. . London : : Sage. .

[24] Swift J. . 1991. . “‘Local Customary Institutions as the Basis for Natural Resource Management among Boran Pastoralists in Northern Kenya’. ”. In IDS Bulletin 22 (4) . , Brighton : : IDS. .

[25] Scoones I. , ed. 1994. . “‘Dynamic Ecological Systems and the Administration of Pastoral Development’. ”. In Living with Uncertainty: New Directions in Pastoral Development in Africa . , London : : IT Publications. .

[26] Toulmin C. . 1995. . “‘The Convention to Combat Desertification: Guidelines for NGO Activity’. ”. London : : International Institute for Environment and Development. .

[27] Uphoff N. . 1993. . ‘Grassroots Organisations and NGOs in Rural Development: Opportunities with Diminishing States and Expanding Markets’. . World Development . , Vol. 21((4)): 607––622. .

[28] Wade R. . 1988. . “‘Village Republics: Economic Conditions for Collective Action in South India’. ”. Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press. .