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Pastoralism may have delayed the end of the green Sahara
Nature Communications, 2018 Climate deterioration towards desertification in North Africa following the African Humid Period has previously been associated with the emergence of pastoralism.
Chris M Brierley +2 more
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Transhumant Pastoralism in the Context of Socioeconomic and Climate Change in the Mountains of Nepal
Mountain Research and Development, 2016 This research explored how transhumant pastoralism has been sustained and promoted in the context of socioeconomic and climate change in the mountain regions of Nepal.
Popular Gentle
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Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023 Since the 1960s, droughts have caused significant degradation of Sahelian ecosystems, particularly resulting in a reduction in tree cover. Despite the challenges posed by climate change, the rural Sahelian population continues to depend on natural ...
Jean-Daniel Cesaro +10 more
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Biodiversity-pastoralism nexus in West Africa
AIMS Agriculture and Food, 2022 Biodiversity loss is a pressing challenge. This is particularly so in regions where the pressure on ecosystems is high such as in the Sahel region. This pressure is due, inter alia, to different land uses such as pastoralism. In this context, the present
Hamid El Bilali +4 more
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Pastoral areas and actors: between pastoralism and pastorality [PDF]
Revue de géographie alpine, 2014 In its first issue, in 1913, the Revue de Geographie Alpine published an article by Philippe Arbos on the pastoral economy of some of the valleys in the Savoie region of France (Economie pastorale dans quelques vallees savoyardes), in which he made the following observation: “livestock is the main, if not the only, resource: the farmer lives from ...
Mounet, Coralie, Turquin, Olivier
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Journal of Food Quality, 2023 Opuntia stricta (Haw.) Haw. is well adapted to arid and semiarid regions and has great potential for industrialisation. One- to four-year-old cladodes of this species harvested in Drâa-Tafilalet region in the southeast of Morocco, were characterised by ...
Soufiane Lahmidi +2 more
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Comparable GHG emissions from animals in wildlife and livestock-dominated savannas
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2023 Pastoralism in Old World savannas is known to emit a significant share of global livestock-sourced greenhouse gases (GHG). Here, we compare calculated emissions from animals in a wildlife-dominated savanna (14.3 Mg km−2), to those in an adjacent land ...
Pablo Manzano +2 more
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Nomadic Peoples, 2023 The recognition that pastoralism is well-suited to conditions of variability and uncertainty is growing among academics and policy-makers. With the notion that schooled individuals with pastoralist backgrounds could influence political decisions ...
Sarah Lunaček
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Land, 2014 In a modeling study we examine vulnerability of income from mobile (transhumant) pastoralism and sedentary pastoralism to reduced mean annual precipitation (MAP) and droughts. The study is based on empirical data of a 3410 km2 research region in southern,
Korbinian P. Freier +2 more
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HIMALAYA, 2023 In this essay we focus on what appears to be an evolving transition among Gaddi and other pastoralist communities in Himachal Pradesh, India. Contrary to predictions of the demise of pastoralism, we argue that while there is evidence of sedentarisation ...
Aniruddh Sheth, Vasant Saberwal
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