The role of education in development is widely recognized in many countries. However, the value placed on formal education differs from one community to the next. In this paper I argue that among the Borana pastoralists of Marsabit District, Kenya, the value of formal education is based on wage-labor opportunities. High value placed on women’s household labor and low accessibility to non-househ...

Indigenous sheep of Kenya are very important to resource-poor farmers and pastoralists. They have over time adapted to the harsh environmental conditions of the arid and semi-arid lands where they are faced with challenges of persistent droughts, diseases, conflicts and poor nutrition, yet show resistance to gastrointestinal nematodes. In recent years, these indigenous sheep populations have be...

Nomadic pastoralists of the African Sahel, the high steppes of central Asia (including the Tibetan Plateau and Mongolia), parts of the Near and Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula and India use mobility to manage uncertainty and risk in arid and semiarid ecosystems (Scoones 1994). In these areas, livelihoods are threatened by drought, diseases, insects and war, among other calamities. Semiarid p...

The need to feed livestock of herdsmen necessitates their migration from their communities due to inadequate pastures to other communities and this has led to the trespass of these pastoralists to the farmlands of local agriculturalists and destruction of their crops thereby leading to conflict. This study therefore analyses the causes, evolution, dynamics and solutions to the conflicts generat...

This paper sets out to examine the impact on health of a key aspect of the semi-nomadic lifestyle, namely geographic mobility. The relevant literature suggests that seasonal migrations of pastoralists tend to increase the risk of a poor health. Highlighted in this paper is an inverse association between spatial mobility and health status among the herders of rural Mongolia. Two types of mobilit...

Abstract Pastoralists and wildlife co‐exist in the Somali Regional State competing for habitat, food water resources. A questionnaire survey conducted among 198 pastoralists, captured information on their perception of against backdrop population decrease, illegal trade lack quantitative qualitative data area. The top perceived threats to livestock were drought (46%), attacks (33.8%) diseases (...

The Maasai pastoralists in sub-Saharan Africa depend on their livestock for income and food. Livestock production can be significantly improved by addressing animal health concerns. We explored the use of photovoice, a participatory action research method, to strengthen our understanding of the Maasai's animal health needs. Nine interviewees, representing warriors, elders, and women, identified...

Fecal samples were collected from diarrheic camel-calves owned by nomadic pastoralists in the Butana Region. They were examined for 5 types of bacteria reported to cause the diarrhea. Sixty nine E. coli (66%), 14 Salmonella spp. (13%) and 11 Clostridium perfringens (10%) isolates were obtained from the samples. However, neither Campylobacter spp. nor Yersinia enterocolitiaca were isolated. The ...