Acknowledgements
About the Authors
Abbreviations and Synonyms

1. Introduction
1.1 The Case Studies
1.2 An Overview of Livestock Production in Uganda
1.2.1 Land Utilisation for Livestock Production
1.2.2 The Potential for Livestock Production in the Different Agro- Ecological Zones

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2. Commercial Livestock Ranching in Uganda
2.1 Background
2.2 The Development of Commercial Livestock Production in Uganda
2.2.1 The Colonial State and Livestock Development
2.2.2 The Individualisation of Rangeland Tenure
2.3 Livestock Development in Post-colonial Uganda (1962-1971)
2.3.1 Government's Policy on Livestock Ranching
2.3.2 The Creation of Government Ranching Schemes
2.3.3 The Terms and Conditions of Ranch Development
2.3.4 Resource Degradation on the Ranches
2.4 Resistance to the Establishment of the Ranching Schemes
2.5 The Achievements of the Ranching Schemes 2.6 The Development of Livestock Production: The Idi Amin Era (1972-1979)
2.7 The Obote II Period (1980 and 1985)
2.7.1 Government's Livestock Development Policy
2.7.2 The Civil Wars and Livestock Production
2.7.3 Constraints to Livestock Production
2.8 Squatter Pastoralism on the Ranching Schemes
2.8.1 The Origins of Squatter Pastoralism
2.8.2 The Alienation of Critical Dry Season Grazing Areas
2.9 Livestock Development under the National Resistance Movement (NRM)
2.9.1 Nrm's Policy on Livestock Sector Development
2.9.2 The Resettlement of Landless Cattle Keepers
2.9.3 The Commission of Inquiry into the Government Ranching Schemes
2.9.4 The Squatters' Uprising
2.9.5 The Repossession of Ranches in Government Ranching Schemes
2.9.6 The Restructuring of Government Ranching Schemes
2.9.7 Rationalisation of Private Ownership
2.10 Livestock Sector Development: Current Prospects and Future Constraints
2.10.1 The Development and Management of Water Facilities
2.10.2 The Increase in Cultivation on the Restructured Ranches
2.10.3 Current Manifestation of Pastoral Nomads
2.10.4 The Development of Livestock Production: What is the Way Forward

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3 . Local Pastoral Institutions: The Case of Karamoja
3.1 A Background
3.2 The State and Pastoralism in Karamoja: A Retrospect
3.3 The Proliferation of Firearms in Karamoja
3.4 Karamoja and the Post Independence State
3.5 Set-up of the Adaptive Units
3.6 Settlement Pattern and Division of Labor
3.6.1 The Permanent Settlement
3.6.2 The Temporary Settlement
3.6.3 The Transition Nawii
3.7 Distribution of Diets
3.8 Adaptive Strategies of the Karimojong
3.8.1 Forms of Social and Political Organisation: the Age System
3.8.2 Age-sets and Generation-sets
3.8.3 Age-sets
3.9 Eligibility for Initiation
3.10 Akiriket
3.11 The Dynamics of Power Relations: Authority of the Elders
3.11.1Negotiating for the He-hoat
3.12 Mobility
3.12.1 The Grazing Camps
3.12.2 Leadership of Ngalomarin
3.12.3 Organisations of the Alomar
3.13 The Question of Cattle Raids
3.14 Politics of the Gun
3.15 the Karimojong and their Neighbours
3.16 Dry Season Grazing
3.17 Taming the Gun
3.18 Epilogue

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4. Conclusions
References
Appendices

Abstract:
The book consists of two case studies that explore the social and economic transformation between two distinct pastoral groups in Uganda, the people of Ankole and of Karamajo.
The case studies examine the tensions between local production systems and development interventions. The authors offer a fresh analysis of the issues that figure large in contemporary Ugandan ethnographic and political studies – ranching and pastoral institutions where the cattle move with seasons and droughts.