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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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Ecology and Society, 2011 Ten case studies from seven major pastoral regions across six continents were studied in this paper by conceptualizing three factors (agro-ecosystem resilience, livelihood options, and institution capacity) as the axes of a three-dimensional ...
Shiliang Liu, Yu Li
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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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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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Rangeland Use Rights Privatisation Based on the Tragedy of the Commons: A Case Study from Tibet
Conservation & Society, 2017 Rangeland use rights privatisation based on a tragedy of the commons assumption has been the backbone of state policy on rangeland management and pastoralism in China.
Yonten Nyima Yundannima
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Proceedings of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, 2017 Mongolians have a pastoralism and they domesticated animals as sheep, goats, camel, cattle,horses and yak. Pastoralism (specially-goats) to affect Mongolian’s custom, making a living,culture, language and others.
Мөнхтамир Д +1 more
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