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Rethinking vulnerability and humanitarian assistance in the pastoral drylands: insights from northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia. [PDF]

open access: yesDisasters
Abstract 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
europepmc   +2 more sources

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]

open access: yesMatern Child Nutr
This 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
europepmc   +2 more sources

A Bronze to Iron Age fishing economy at Kalbāʾ 4 (Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates)

open access: yesArabian 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
wiley   +1 more source

The geographies of colonial infrastructures: Mobility, im/materiality, and politics on walking trails in the Middle East

open access: yesTransactions 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
wiley   +1 more source

Genius Loci and/or Zeitgeist?

open access: yesПроект 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
doaj   +1 more source

Intersecting (im)mobilities in the context of drought, hunger and conflict – Reflections inspired by research in Kenya

open access: yes, 2023
International Migration, Volume 61, Issue 6, Page 345-348, December 2023.
Benjamin Etzold, Marie Müller‐Koné
wiley   +1 more source

Organisation sociale et zootechnique de la gestion des produits laitiers en milieu sahélien : la sphère laitière. Cas du delta du fleuve Sénégal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
En milieu sahélien, la concession est une organisation sociale commune mais complexe. L'illustration en est donnée pour la gestion des produits laitiers en milieu pastoral et agropastoral.
Corniaux, Christian
core   +2 more sources

No Option but to Settle! The Community Land Act, Devolution and Pastoralism in Samburu County, Kenya

open access: yesNomadic 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
doaj   +1 more source

Reimagining invasions: The social and cultural impacts of Prosopis on pastoralists in southern Afar, Ethiopia

open access: yesPastoralism, 2017
Whilst the environmental impacts of biological invasions are clearly conceptualised and there is growing evidence on the economic benefits and costs, the social and cultural dimensions remain poorly understood.
Paul Rogers   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A social perspective on the Neolithic in western Iran

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2016
While the Neolithic revolution caused gradual basic changes in different dimensions of human life, including social structure, western Iran has so far mostly received attention in terms of the emergence of domestication and sedentarisation.
Hojjat Darabi
doaj   +1 more source

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