This article examines the ways in which discourses and narratives around pastoralism climate change have been communicated within policy-making Ethiopia over an eleven-year period (2007-2017), interests of different actors shaping these policies some consequences policy solutions for pastoralist livelihoods. Employing discourse analysis policy-relevant documents, combined with data drawn from i...

The focus of attention regarding the impacts COVID-19 pandemic has been on direct health outcomes and macroeconomic control measures. Here we review available evidence about food security pastoralists in Eastern Western Africa. While pastoralism occurs more than 50% world's land area, landscapes that exploit tend to be remote highly variable arid semi-arid lands with low population densities. O...

Khuzestan has one of the most detailed and well documented archaeological sequences in the Near East, thanks to years of excavation and survey by many researchers. This work has led to some understanding of political, economic, and social life in southwestern Iran from the time of the early villages to that of the early states and the historic empires. Over the millennia, agriculture and pastor...

Stable isotope ratios of carbon and nitrogen in bone have become increasingly frequent inclusions in archaeological reports over the past few decades. The majority of such studies has been done in North America, where the use of marine foods and the introduction of maize have been monitored. Similar questions have been addressed in Mesoamerica and South America. In Europe, stable isotope ratios...