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

Nomadic 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.

Nomadic 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

Nomadic 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, Andrea Capobianco Dondona   +1 more
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No Option but to Settle! The Community Land Act, Devolution and Pastoralism in Samburu County, Kenya

Nomadic 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, of Copenhagen, Karuti Kanyinga, Iben Nathan   +3 more
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Over Time and Space: Hybrid Rangeland Governance in Amdo Tibet

Nomadic 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)
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Gender-Differentiated Roles and Perceptions on Climate Variability among Pastoralist and Agro-Pastoralist Communities in Marsabit, Kenya

Nomadic Peoples
Climate variability and its impacts affect different members of gender groups in households and society differently. Within the pastoral community, women are more vulnerable, being among the poorest of the poor, and they are expected to be highly ...
Armara Macimilliam Galwab, Oscar K. Koech, Oliver V. Wasonga, Godfrey Kironchih   +3 more
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Customary Land Governance and Conflict Resolution among the Debne and Weima Afar Clans, Northeast Ethiopia

Nomadic Peoples
This study is based on three months of fieldwork among the Debne and Weima Afar clans in Amibara woreda (district), Afar National Regional State (ANRS), Ethiopia, which was conducted in three rounds in 2016, 2018 and 2022.
Dejene Debsu
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Introduction to Special Section

Nomadic Peoples
This special section on mountain pastoralism, mobility and environment in the Mediterranean Europe seeks to reconnect Southern-Europe mountain pastoralism in the face of common social, economic, political and environmental challenges.
Júlio Sá Rêgo, Athanasios Ragkos
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Beyond the ‘Wild Shepherd’: How Global Capitalism Has Reshaped Pastoralism. Suggestions from a Mediterranean Island

Nomadic Peoples
This article shows how, from the modern era up to the present day, Sardinian pastoralism has been increasingly incorporated into global capitalism, despite essentialising narratives about the primitiveness and backwardness of shepherds that have been ...
Domenica Farinella
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Pastoralism in Shimshal: Adapting Old Practices to Meet New Challenges

Nomadic Peoples
Shimshal is one of the valleys in Karakoram most favourably endowed with pasture resources. The pastures are a major asset of the community and a stable feature of agricultural practice.
Hermann Josef Kreutzmann
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