Fading immune protection in farmed animals may present a problem, particularly in free-ranging animals in nomadic and transhumant pastoral systems, where animals are not readily available for large-scale blanket vaccination programmes. Two veterinary examples of fading immune protection are discussed: rinderpest and foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). Both are devastating viral diseases of cattle tha...

The study examined the pastoralists’ perception towards non-pastoral activities and proportion of pastoralist income from diverse livelihood in pastoral areas Yabello dist...

Climate change and variability have adversely affected communities’ pastoral livelihoods in Kenya. The study aimed to investigate sustaining a changing climate Loima Sub-County, Turkana County, A total of 59 pastoralists were interviewed using questionnaire. data was analysed the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software Version 22. SPSS employed descriptive statistical techniques...

The independent and synergic impacts of climatic change capitalist expansion may render pastoral social-ecological systems extinct. Climatic compromises rangelands, while economic development fosters conversion land into territories for expansion. Pastoralists’ institutions regulate decision-making to socio-environmental shape adaptive responses, enabling mobile livestock rearing using multiple...

Smith (1998) uses the relationship between Maasai pastoralists and so-called Dorobo hunter-gatherers in East Africa as part of a framework for understanding archaeological finds on the Vredenberg Peninsula in South Africa. We argue that this relationship may be less marked by subservience, hierarchy, marginalization, and dependence than Smith’s sources indicate, and we explore the implications ...

Rangelands are known as one of the main income resources for their exploiters.In the recent century, management of Iran rangeland has undergone vast transformationsbecause of vulnerable socio-economic conditions of pastoralists. A study was done toprovide a clear picture of the status and utilization of Aq Qala rangelands via assessinginternal and external environmental factors affecting the ut...