This paper explores how the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP), as an example of contemporary bottom-up development practices in global South, governs nomadic pastoralists peripheries. Based on fieldwork Ethiopia's Somali region, we show that PSNP client targeting, community-based public works and (international) financial resource flows, both for their own sake because entanglement with se...

Natural resources have been attracted a great deal of attentions and have been frequently exploited for many years. Dust is one of natural disasters mainly in recent years; here, in south west of Iran, it had destroyed the rangelands. The dust has detrimental effects on the rangelands, livestock and livestock production. High concentrations of dust may lead to the coughing, nasal discharge, whe...

Food Security Context: Complex Patterns of Climate, Climate Change, and Livelihoods Most rural people live in the highlands and middle-highlands, which comprise only one-third of the country, and this population tends to be concentrated primarily in Oromia or northern SNNPR. The seasonality of rainfall varies in different areas of Ethiopia. In the eastern Somali region, rains come twice a year–...

The nomadism/pastoralism debate has always been closely connected to discourses about modernization theories whenever development issues were at stake. While the mainstream debates have changed since stage models apparently became outdated, it is surprising that the Chinese development model seems to adhere to classical modernization theory. Consequently, it appears worthwhile to consider prese...

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that farmers are at high risk of hip osteoarthritis and to investigate possible causes for such a hazard. DESIGN Cross sectional survey. SETTING Five rural general practices. SUBJECTS 167 male farmers aged 60-76 and 83 controls from mainly sedentary jobs. All those without previous hip replacement underwent radiography of the hip. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES H...

Identification of breeding objective traits pertinent to specific production environments with the involvement of target beneficiaries is crucial to the success of a breed improvement program. A choice experiment was conducted in four locations representing different production systems and agro-ecologies that are habitat to four indigenous sheep breeds (Afar, Bonga, Horro and Menz) of Ethiopia ...

natural resources have been attracted a great deal of attentions and have been frequently exploited for many years. dust is one of natural disasters mainly in recent years; here, in south west of iran, it had destroyed the rangelands. the dust has detrimental effects on the rangelands, livestock and livestock production. high concentrations of dust may lead to the coughing, nasal discharge, whe...