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Transhumant Pastoralism in the Context of Socioeconomic and Climate Change in the Mountains of Nepal

open access: yesMountain 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
exaly   +3 more sources

Pastoral areas and actors: between pastoralism and pastorality [PDF]

open access: yesRevue 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 ...
Coralie Mounet, Olivier Turquin
openaire   +3 more sources

Reforestation and sylvopastoral systems in Sahelian drylands: evaluating return on investment from provisioning ecosystem services, Senegal

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

Physical and Physicochemical Characteristics, Bioactive Compounds, and Antioxidant Activity of Cladodes from Erect Prickly Pear Opuntia stricta (Haw.) Haw.

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

Comparable GHG emissions from animals in wildlife and livestock-dominated savannas

open access: yesnpj 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
doaj   +1 more source

Schooled Tuaregs’ Engagement with Mobile Pastoralism in the Agadez Region (Niger): Avoidable Sedentism and Alternative Forms of Cooperation

open access: yesNomadic 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
doaj   +1 more source

Adaptation to New Climate by an Old Strategy? Modeling Sedentary and Mobile Pastoralism in Semi-Arid Morocco

open access: yesLand, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Rangeland Use Rights Privatisation Based on the Tragedy of the Commons: A Case Study from Tibet

open access: yesConservation & 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
doaj   +1 more source

Ардын сурган хүмүүжүүлэх ухаан тогтвортой хэллэгээр илрэх нь (ямааны бэлчээрт нөлөөлөлтийн жишээгээр)

open access: yesProceedings 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
doaj   +1 more source

Herds of the tundra by Robert Paine

open access: yesRangifer, 1998
1994. Herds of the Tundra: A Portrait of Reindeer Pastoralism. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London. 242 pp. Robert Paine's most important contribution to the study of reindeer husbandry (pastoralism).
Dag T. Elgvin
doaj   +1 more source

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