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No Option but to Settle! The Community Land Act, Devolution and Pastoralism in Samburu County, Kenya

open access: yesNomadic Peoples, 2023
This article examines the process of securing land rights for pastoralists in Kenya, applying the concept of sedentism to understand the impact of two recent changes in Kenyan land governance.
Rahma Hassan   +3 more
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Over Time and Space: Hybrid Rangeland Governance in Amdo Tibet

open access: yesNomadic Peoples, 2023
Hybrid land governance, mosaics, polycentrism have become ways to describe contemporary rangeland settings – ways of responding to uncertainties through flexible institutions, overlapping boundaries and an assembled, plural bricolage of practices ...
Palden Tsering (Huadancairang)
doaj   +1 more source

Sedentist Epidemiology: COVID-19 Policies and Pastoral Mobility in Turkana County, Kenya

open access: yesNomadic Peoples, 2023
Authorities have often seen pastoralist mobility as a challenge for public health and veterinary disease control. While the movement of humans and animals can influence disease transmission, authorities often overlook the complexity of these ...
Cory Rodgers, Greta Semplici
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Legal Ambiguity and Land Dispossession: Multi-Scale Conflicting Views on Territorial Authority at the Herlen Bayan-Ulaan State Reserve Pasture Area, Mongolia.

open access: yesNomadic Peoples, 2023
The Mongolian government pursues various objectives that are often assumed to benefit citizens, including socio-economic development, biodiversity conservation and innovative technologies in the agricultural sector to adapt to climate change.
Sandagsuren Undargaa
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Modern Management of Livestock and Pastures in Nomadic Communities

open access: yesNomadic Peoples, 2023
For thousands of years, pastoralism was the primary economic resource of millions of people, and today it is one of the major activities in many rural communities.
Flavio Forabosco   +1 more
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Nomadic Territories: A Human Rights Approach to Nomadic Peoples' Land Rights [PDF]

open access: yesHuman Rights Law Review, 2007
In most societies nomadic peoples face discrimination. At the heart of this discrimination frequently lies the crucial issue of property in land. The sharing of lands between nomads and settled agriculturalist societies has often led to violent confrontation.
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Nomadic Peoples and Access to Healthcare

open access: yes, 2022
Nomadic peoples are diverse and heterogenous groups who have high levels of mobility and move from place to place, often with their livestock, in search of resources, work and food. Examples of nomadic or mobile peoples are African pastoralist groups such as the Turkana, as well as the Bedouin, and Mongolian Herders.
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Changing Mountain Pastoralism and Its Impacts in the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region: The Case of Kushum, Pakistan

open access: yesNomadic Peoples
Pastoralism in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region of Pakistan has undergone significant sociocultural, economic and ecological changes over the last three decades.
Zahir Ahmad   +4 more
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The Transformation of Maldarai (Pastoralist Livelihood) in Yarkhun Valley, Chitral, Pakistan: Impacts of Neoliberalism, School Education and Climate Change

open access: yesNomadic Peoples
This study examines the future of pastoral livelihoods in rural Yarkhun Valley, Pakistan, in the context of the broader literature on changing pastoralism and the challenges faced by pastoralist communities.
Abdul Wahid Khan
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Nomads and sedentary peoples

open access: yes, 1981
Congreso de Ciencias Humanas en Asía y África del ...
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