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Rethinking vulnerability and humanitarian assistance in the pastoral drylands: insights from northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia. [PDF]
DisastersAbstract Drought‐related emergency assistance in the drylands is shaped by understandings of vulnerability that are often not commensurate with the socioeconomic dynamics that structure everyday life in pastoralist contexts. Forms of humanitarian assessment and targeting undertaken before the implementation of assistance programmes tend to be oriented ...
Hassan R +3 more
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Impact of different destocking strategies on the resilience of dry rangelands. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2023 The resilience of dry rangelands is significantly impacted by the choice of livestock management strategies, with a typical trade‐off between productivity and ecosystem resilience. Comparing two axes of variation (intensity and adaptivity) in livestock management strategies, we find that a stronger coupling between the destocking rate and the amount of
Vignal T +3 more
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Tailoring Trials of Improved Practices (TIPs) to Improve Child Feeding and Use of Indigenous Preserved Foods in Drought-Affected Kenya: Considerations for Climate Shocks. [PDF]
Matern Child NutrThis assessment examined the use of traditional preserved foods to improve infant and young child feeding in northern Kenya's drought‐affected communities that were part of a humanitarian assistance program. The findings presented explore cultural, gender, and social norms in relation to IYCF practices and use the Trials of Improved Practices ...
Matiri E +7 more
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A Bronze to Iron Age fishing economy at Kalbāʾ 4 (Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates)
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 44-62, November 2023., 2023 Abstract This paper represents a study of archaeological fish remains retrieved from the excavations conducted by C. S. Phillips between 1993 and 2001 at Kalbāʾ 4 (Emirate of Sharjah, UAE). Kalbāʾ 4 is a major coastal site that was continuously occupied from the Umm an‐Nar period to the Iron Age (c. 2700–600 BCE).
Kevin Lidour +5 more
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 506-524, September 2023., 2023 Short Abstract The past 20 years have seen an expansion of walking trails across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. By attending to the im/material and state/embodied tensions of walking trails, this paper demonstrates how an innocuous‐looking site can enrich understanding of infrastructures and work exploring the mobilities and ...
Olivia Mason
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Du nomadisme à la sédentarisation
Revue d'ethnoécologie, 2012 In West and Central Sudano-Sahelian Africa, the intensification and modernisation of livestock farming promoted by environmental and livestock support services were not immediately accepted by herdsmen.
Aimé Landry Dongmo +5 more
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Проект Байкал, 2023 The article considers the concepts of Genius Loci and Zeitgeist and shows the contradictions between these two aspects and their influence on the development of architecture.
Константин Лидин
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Le territoire dans l’univers innu d’aujourd’hui [PDF]
, 1996 Ce texte porte sur le sens du territoire qu'ont les Innus selon leur vision traditionnelle du monde et sur les modifications que le contact avec la société maintenant majoritaire a pu y apporter.
Lacasse, Jean-Paul
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, 2023 International Migration, Volume 61, Issue 6, Page 345-348, December 2023.
Benjamin Etzold, Marie Müller‐Koné
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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 +3 more
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