Sedentarization as an adaptation to socio-environmental changes? Everyday herding practices in pastoralist communities in southern Ethiopia

Prevalence of malaria and associated factors in Benna Tsemay district of pastoralist community, Southern Ethiopia

BACKGROUND Though the burden of malaria is declining, challenges in control continue globally, regionally and nationally as the transmission of malaria is dynamic and determinants differ by place and time, and across populations. The current level of knowledge on malaria prevalence and associated factors in specific communities, such as pastoralist communities of Ethiopia, is lacking. METHODS...

Self-treatment of malaria in rural communities, Butajira, southern Ethiopia.

OBJECTIVES To quantify the use of self-treatment and to determine the actions taken to manage malaria illness. METHODS A cross-sectional study was undertaken in six peasant associations in Butajira district, southern Ethiopia, between January and September 1999. Simple random sampling was used to select a sample of 630 households with malaria cases within the last six months. FINDINGS Overa...

Local innovation in climate-change adaptation by Ethiopian pastoralists PROLINNOVA–Ethiopia and Pastoralist Forum Ethiopia (PFE) Final report

Socio-Cultural and Behavioral Changes as an Impact of Transformation of Kitchen (A Study in Kelardasht Town in Iran)

Modernization as a process also affects the way a society thinks, its attitudes, beliefs, food, dress habits, and cultural patterns at the level of individuals, and as the individuals can be seen as units of the society. In this study, an attempt has been made to understand the consequences of modernization in the traditional housing pattern as reflected in the changes in Kitchen. For the prese...

Rangeland Management for Improved Pastoralist Livelihoods The Borana of Southern Ethiopia

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