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Impacts of long-term land-use changes on herd size and mobility among pastoral households in Amboseli ecosystem, Kenya

open access: yesEcological Processes, 2018
Introduction Long-term changes in rangeland ecosystems of the world have impacted on the livestock production, a key livelihood strategy in these areas.
Kennedy Sakimba Kimiti   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sedentarization and maternal childcare networks: role of risk, gender and demography. [PDF]

open access: yesPhilos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2023
Page AE   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Pastoral transitions in West Africa: analysis of factors influencing herders’ sedentarization in northern Benin

open access: yesPastoralism
Pastoral livestock in West Africa has been under increasing pressure in recent years due to land tenure challenges, climate change, insecurity, and socio-economic transformations.
Agbatan Marc Koutchoro   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Grazing reserves in Nigeria: Problems, prospects and policy implication [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Grazing reserves in Nigeria are areas set aside for the use of pastoralists and are intended to be the foci of livestock development. The stated purpose of grazing reserves is the settlement of nomadic pastoralists they offer security of tenure as an ...
Ingawa, S.A.   +2 more
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Ottoman Frontier Expansion in Hawran

open access: yesDiyâr
This study aims to explore the transformation of Hawran following its incorporation into theDamascus province as a sanjak in 1864 within the context of Ottoman frontier expansion.
Hatice Kamalı
doaj   +1 more source

The effect of environmental variability on livestock and land-use management: the Borana Plateau, Southern Ethiopia [PDF]

open access: yes
The Borana people are the predominant ethnic group on the Borana Plateau in southern Ethiopia, who have recently increased their reliance on crops.
Kamara. Abdul   +2 more
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On the Process of Sedentarization of Volga Bulgars

open access: yesJournal of Sustainable Development, 2015
© The authors. The relevance of the study is determined by the need to create a more complete picture of the conversion of the nomadic peoples of Eurasian steppes, namely, the Volga Bulgars living in VIII-X centuries, to a strict sedentarization while statehood was being formed and new religion - Islam was being spread.
openaire   +4 more sources

International conference on policy and institutional options for the management of rangelands in dry areas: workshop summary paper [PDF]

open access: yes
"The System-wide Program for Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi) sponsored an International Conference on Policy and Institutional Options for the Management of Rangelands in Dry Areas, May 7-11, 2001 in Hammamet, Tunisia.
Di Gregorio, Monica   +2 more
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Law as theory: constitutive thought in the formation of (legal) practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Law in its practical guise is found to have a constituent correspondence with ...
Fitzpatrick, Peter
core  

Colonial origins and growth of financial markets in Africa: A comparative analysis based on institutions

open access: yesJournal of Government and Economics
This paper studies the effect of settlement and mortality on the growth of African financial markets using the mediation of institutions over the period 1996–2017. A comparative result is based on two types of data bases.
Désiré Avom   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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