La evangelización fundante de América Latina tuvo como principal protagonista a la Inmaculada Virgen María, desembarcada por los misioneros españoles y constituida agente pastoral excelencia. Las causas son muchas, pero, principalmente, debemos reconocer su capacidad única asimilarse cultura pueblos dar un rostro inculturado Iglesia. reflexión Monseñor Gerardo Tomás Farrell aborda esta cuestión...

The study was conducted to explore range management practices, and pastoralists’ views on degradation and its impact on local livelihood in south Ethiopia. The data was gathered from three pastoral and agro-pastoral districts of the Guji zone using structure questionnaires, key respondents and direct observation. The study shows the use of enclosure and herd mobility in basic traditional practi...

Christmas and music seem to belong together. Corelli’s Christmas Concerto, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, and the Christmas sections from Handel’s Messiah are an integral part of the public and private soundscapes between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve. They belong to the feast like roasted chestnuts and peppermint sticks. The soothing sound of the Baroque pastoral and the festive splendor of conc...

Population Health and Environment (PHE) strategies are argued to improve ecosystem and human health by addressing family size and its effects on natural resource use, food security, and reproductive health. This study investigates men's views on a PHE family planning (FP) programme delivered among the pastoral Samburu tribe in rural northern Kenya. Three focus group discussions and nine semi-st...

Analysing the effect of pastoral risk management strategies provides insights into a system of subsistence that have persevered in marginal areas for hundreds to thousands of years and may shed light into the future of around 200 million households in the face of climate change. This study investigated the efficiency of herd accumulation as a buffer strategy by analysing changes in livestock ho...

We explore how diet diversity differs with agricultural seasons and between households within pastoral and agro-pastoral livelihood systems, using variety of foods consumed as a less complex proxy indicator of food insecurity than benchmark indicators like anthropometry and serum nutrients. The study was in the central part of the rangelands in Uganda. Seventy nine households were monitored for...

In the last decade environmental policies, particularly ecological resettlement, have changed China’s pastoral areas. This paper explores the diffi culty in conserving rangeland through ecological resettlement. The paper focuses on how ecological resettlement policy has been translated into practice, and how the affected people responded with migration decisions. Empirical fi ndings in a pastor...