There is much land in pastoral areas of the Horn of Africa that could be converted to irrigated agriculture and thus provide an alternative or additional livelihood for pastoralists. There is a long history of successful indigenous irrigation in the Horn of Africa but interventions by outsiders to involve pastoralists in irrigation in the last sixty years have largely failed. The causes for fai...

The complex human experience of military service and the stress suffered by millions of military families each time a loved one deploys present unique challenges and opportunities in providing pastoral care and counseling. War and military service impact many facets of our society, as well as generational and interpersonal relationships. This article speaks to both academic and practitioner com...

Hospital chaplains struggle to know which patients most likely need pastoral care and why. The author presents a computerized model to screen and document indicated patients. A new screening tool is introduced, the Clinical + Coping Score, which can check with greater precision for patients who show evidence of insufficient coping. This screening model informs the subsequent assessment and inte...

At the opening of the new millennium, both range science and pastoral development find themselves in a state of flux. Recent decades have witnessed widespread criticism of pastoral development programs implemented in the latter half of the twentieth century (Agrawal 1998, Ferguson 1994, Hary et al. 1996). Meanwhile, ecological research has cast doubt on the Clementsian paradigm that informed ra...

Cape York pastoralists and Aborigines have jointly called for state and federal governments to legislate 1⁄4 a form of statutory co-existence of title on pastoral leases. 1⁄4 [A] marathon seven-hour meeting in the Queensland town of Coen last week 1⁄4 sought to address the uncertainty and ® nancial dif® culties ̄ owing to Cape York pastoralists from the Wik people’ s claim to a large area of Cap...

In order to evaluate the effectiveness of graduate theological education, Part 1 of this study sought to establish frames of reference for measuring success in pastoral ministry and to evaluate the relationshp between leadershp practices and those criteria.' Stated differently, Are leadership practices a predictor of success in pastoral ministry? We concluded that "using superior leadership pra...

Efforts to develop market opportunities are a key element of the current USAID agricultural strategy. In this study, we illustrate how milk marketing in two pastoral towns in northern Kenya is influenced by patterns in intra-household decision making. In this pastoral study area, men make migration decisions and women market milk. Since milk markets are in town and households change location fr...

Introduction Pastoralism is the dominant land use in 25% of the world’s landscapes and comprises the basic subsistence strategy of 20 million households (Galaty and Johnson 1990). These rangeland ecosystems largely occur in regions too dry for rainfed agriculture, and are characterized by recurrent drought and strong intraand inter-seasonal variability in climate (Ellis and Galvin 1994, Galvin ...