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Transhumance, Migratory Drift, Migration; Patterns of Pastoral Fulani Nomadism

The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1957
THE FULANI ARE AN IMPORTANT AFRICAN POPULATION, numbering perhaps seven millions, widely distributed in the Western Sudan from Senegambia in the West to French Equatorial Africa in the East, with their main concentration in Senegambia, Upper Niger, Northern Nigeria, and the British and French Cameroons (Fig. I).
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FULANI PASTORALISM AND THE PROBLEMS OF THE NIGERIAN VETERINARY SERVICE

African Affairs, 1979
SINCE NIGERIA has found it necessary to give a high priority to disease control as a factor in increasing livestock production in general, and since the success in the field of disease control has been very encouraging, the time has come to look at the traditional pastoral organization and the role Nigerian veterinarians should play in bringing their ...
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Hired Herders and Herd Management in Fulani Pastoralism (Northern Côte d'Ivoire)

Cahiers d'études africaines, 1994
T. Bassett — Bergers salaries et gestion du troupeau chez les eleveurs peuls du Nord de la Cote-d'Ivoire. ; Les bergers salaries occupent une place importante dans l'elevage de Cote-d'Ivoire. Ceci apparait a la fois dans le fort pourcentage de bergers employes par les proprietaires de betail mais egalement dans le role que jouent ceux-ci en matiere d ...
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Household food security and environmental management practices within settled Fulani agro-pastoral households in Ogun State

Journal of Environmental Extension, 2002
Many approaches had been applied to increase the level of food production in developing countries as the population increases but which do not show any appreciable increase, but decline. And the Fulanis have become increasingly more settled in the southern parts of Nigeria.
Oyesola, O.B., Oladeji, J.O.
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The Indigenous Knowledge System of Female Pastoral Fulani of Northern Nigeria

2010
Recent debates on the role and contribution of African Inthgenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) have expanded the scope of African stuthes and education scholarships. African pastoral communities, which consist of inthgenous people, are a few of the continent’s population that retain and promote IKS, not only as a means of cultural sustainability, but for ...
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Improved productivity and sustainable pastoral systems in an era of insecurity—Fulani herds of the southern Jos Plateau, North-Central Nigeria

Tropical Animal Health and Production, 2016
This study investigated the productivity and management of sheep and cattle kept by Fulani pastoralists of Bokkos local government area on the Jos Plateau, North-Central Nigeria. Despite the challenges related to insecurity and restricted access to natural resources, results show large breeding herds with above average productivity and reproductive ...
Ayodele O, Majekodunmi, Charles, Dongkum, Tok, Langs, Alexandra, Shaw, Susan, Welburn   +4 more
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Qualitative and quantitative impacts assessment of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia in Fulani pastoral herds of North-central Nigeria: The associated socio-cultural factors

Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 2016
Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia is one of the most important trans-boundary disease affecting Fulani cattle herds of Nigeria and whose control is urgently needed. A Participatory Epidemiology approach and cross-sectional study were concurrently conducted to investigate qualitative and quantitative impacts of CBPP, respectively and associated socio ...
N B, Alhaji, O O, Babalobi
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Cattle and inequality: herd size differences and pastoral production among the Fulani of northeastern Senegal

Africa, 1987
Opening ParagraphThere is a growing body of research that addresses issues of income distribution and the mechanisms of inequality in rural farming communities in Africa (see, for example, Hill, 1972; Matlon, 1981; Kitching, 1980; Sutter, 1981; Watts, 1983).
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Fulani Pastoralism and National Integration Question in South Western, Nigeria

Journal of Nation-building & Policy Studies, 2022
Samuel Chukwudi Agunyai, Lere Amusan, Oladejo Oluwatobi   +2 more
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Of Man and Cattle: A Reconsideration of the Traditions of Origin of Pastoral Fulani of Nigeria

History in Africa, 1991
The fair-skinned people who inhabit the Sudan fringes of west Africa stretching from the Senegal valley to the shores of Lake Chad and who speak the language known as Fulfulde, are known by many names.1 They call themselves Fulbe (singular, Pullo). They are called Fulani by the Hausa of southern Nigeria, and this name has been used for them throughout ...
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