Can mima-like mounds be Vertisol relics (Far North Region of Cameroon, Chad Basin)?

The social context of herding contracts in the Far North Region of Cameroon*

Droughts across Africa have led to a shift in livestock ownership from impoverished pastoralists to absentee owners who contract hired herders to manage * This research has been supported by the National Science Foundation (BCS-9910557, BCS0748594), the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (Gr. 6661), the National Geographic Society (8306-07), the College of Social and Behavioral...

Biotic origin for Mima mounds supported by numerical modeling

Bovine trypanosomiasis in tsetse-free pastoral zone of the Far-North region, Cameroon.

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES The Far-North region of Cameroon has been considered free of tsetse and trypanosomiasis for the past three decades. But recent reports by pastoralists indicate its reappearance in the region. This study was aimed to confirm the existence of cattle trypanosomiasis and determine its prevalence, and to establish pastoralists knowledge and practice (KP) of the disease in Ndi...

On Not Knowing Zoonotic Diseases: Pastoralists' Ethnoveterinary Knowledge in the Far North Region of Cameroon.

In this article, we consider the implications of Murray Last's (1981)Knowing About Not Knowing for the study of ethnoveterinary knowledge of mobile pastoralists in the Far North Region of Cameroon. Specifically, we ask two interrelated questions: (1) what is the nature of this knowledge, and (2) what is the best way to study it? We conducted a study of pastoralists' knowledge of human and anima...

Clinical and Microbiological Assessment of Trachoma in the Kolofata Health District, Far North Region, Cameroon

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Trachoma is a sight-threatening process triggered by the infection of the conjunctiva with Chlamydiae. Blindness associated with trachoma was reported in Sahelian areas of Cameroon. However, data on the prevalence of this neglected infection in the Far North Region are not available. The aim of this study was a) to assess clinical trachoma and b) to detect Chlamydia in the c...