BACKGROUND Although brucellosis (Brucella spp.) and Q Fever (Coxiella burnetii) are zoonoses of global importance, very little high quality data are available from West Africa. METHODS/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS A serosurvey was conducted in Togo's main livestock-raising zone in 2011 in 25 randomly selected villages, including 683 people, 596 cattle, 465 sheep and 221 goats. Additionally, 464 transhu...

The rich anthropological and ethnographic literature on cattle “color” “pattern” terms has argued for the central role of model in visual systems pastoral cultures. This study provides further evidence to idea a structuring pastoralists’ systems, it explores indigenous meanings Hamar, language spoken Southwest Ethiopia. results show that pastoralists communicate conceptualize all kind experienc...

iii FOREWORD For decades, agencies of development cooperation (DC) have been working in the drylands of developing and transition countries. These regions are an immense challenge for technical cooperation because of their high climatic variability, their susceptibility to desertification and their economic and political sensitivity, including their potential for social and resource-based confl...

The management of rangelands, including climate change adaptation strategies, is primarily responsible for stimulating livestock productivity, which consequently improves food security. This paper investigates the impact adaptations on security among pastoralists in semi-arid parts Kenya, who have not received due attention to date. Using an endogenous switching regression model, current study ...

BACKGROUND Ethiopia has high prevalences of udder health problems including clinical and subclinical mastitis across production systems in different livestock species. Previous studies on udder health problems have largely focused on identification of mastitis causing microbial pathogens and associated risk factors. However, relatively little is known about the knowledge and beliefs of livestoc...

In this paper, I examine how some nomadic pastoralists in Iran changed their use of the physical environment over the past thirty years and how these changes related to their economic practices. I base this paper on my anthropological research among Qashqa’i nomadic pastoralists in southwestern Iran in the 1970s and 1990s, including eight visits since the revolution in 1978-1979 and the Islamic...

Githiori, John B. 2004. Evaluation of Anthelmintic Properties of Ethnoveterinary Plant Preparations Used as Livestock Dewormers by Pastoralists and Small Holder Farmers in Kenya. Doctoral thesis ISSN 1401-6257, ISBN 91 576 6666 0 Parasitic nematodes, especially Haemonchus contortus, are among the most common and economically important causes of infectious diseases of sheep and goats owned by pa...

BACKGROUND The traditional knowledge of local communities throughout the world is a valuable source of novel ideas and information to science. In this study, the ethnoveterinary knowledge of Sahrawi pastoralists of Western Sahara has been used in order to put forward a scientific hypothesis regarding the competitive interactions between camels and caterpillars in the Sahara ecosystem. METHODS...