Projekt

Common village pastures are a heavily used key resource for mobile and stationary livestock keepers in Azerbaijan and Georgia. Village smallholders' livelihood depends in vast parts from livestock husbandry, while intact pastures around villages prevent them from natural hazards. Village pastures are managed locally and collectively by a village community, which has designs and enforces regulations itself. In addition, different user groups, i.e. mobile and stationary livestock keepers, villagers and the village administration, have conflicting interests in resource management which have to be balanced in a complex negotiation process. The project focuses on two neighbouring countries with similar ecological conditions and a similar administrative framework for pasture resource which was developed in the post-socialist transition period. However, due to differences in individual incentives and social experiences, the preferences and capacity for collective action might differ between the two countries. The research intends to contribute to the improved collective management of heavily used pasture resources in both countries by analysing the resource management problem from an interdisciplinary perspective. Institutional economic, farm economic and ecological knowledge are used to analyse in detail the resource management dynamics and to develop from the synthesis of these perspectives recommendations for the ecologically sound and socially sustainable management of village pasture resources.

• Prof. Dr. Volker Beckmann

  Universität Greifswald
  Institut für Botanik und Landschaftsökologie
  Greifswald
  

• Dr. Michael Rühs

  Universität Greifswald
  Institut für Botanik und Landschaftsökologie
  Greifswald
  

• Prof. Dr. Maharram Huseynov

  Azerbaijan State Agrarian University
  Department of Financial and
  Economic Theory
  Ganja
  Aserbaidschan
  

• Prof. Dr. Gurban Mammadov

  Azerbaijan State Agrarian University
  Plant Growing, Selection and Genetics Department
  Ganja
  Aserbaidschan
  

• Prof. Dr. Alexandre Didebuldze

  Agricultural University of Georgia
  Tbilisi
  Georgien
  

• Prof. Dr. Teo Urushadze

  Agricultural University of Georgia
  School of Agriculture and Natural Sciences
  Tbilisi
  Georgien
  

• Investigation of Ecological Purity of Village Pastures in Kakheti Region Based on the Analysis of Toxic Metals in Grass

• Application of the MODIS MOD 17 Net Primary Production product in grassland carrying capacity assessment