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Impact of Land Subdivision and Sedentarization on Wildlife in Kenya’s Southern Rangelands

, 2013
Subdivision and sedentarization of pastoral communities is accelerating rapidly across the African rangelands, posing a severethreat to wildlife populations, but few studies have looked quantitatively at the ecological impact of sedentarization.
Western, David, Groom, Rosemary J.
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‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 707-717, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
wiley   +1 more source

ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 960-981, July 2026.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
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Exploring drivers and costs of partial trans‐Saharan migration in juvenile vultures

Ibis, Volume 168, Issue 3, Page 1085-1099, July 2026.
Partial migration occurs when only a subset of individuals within a population undertakes a migratory journey. The decision to migrate can be influenced by intrinsic traits (e.g. sex or physical condition) as well as by extrinsic factors (e.g. social environment or resource availability).
Eneko Arrondo, Ana Sanz‐Aguilar, Andrea Santangeli, Manuel De La Riva, David Serrano, Ainara Cortés‐Avizanda, Olivier Duriez, Juan Manuel Pérez‐García, José Antonio Sanchez‐Zapata, Martina Carrete, Juan Oltra, Antoni Margalida, Pilar Oliva‐Vidal, Guillermo Blanco, Oscar Frías, Félix Martínez, José Luis González‐Del Barrio, José María Martínez, José Antonio Donázar   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enabling pastoralist management of rangelands to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Volume 24, Issue 4, May 2026.
Rangelands cover 54% of the global terrestrial area and are threatened by land conversion and degradation, which erodes their global value and weakens the livelihoods of pastoralists who manage them. Sustainable Development Goal Target 15.3 on Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) provides a framework for sustainable rangelands management, but countries ...
Mounir Louhaichi, Jonathan Davies, Pedro Maria Herrera Calvo, Bora Masumbuko, Hanspeter Liniger, Rima Mekdaschi Studer, Nicole Harari, Maryam Niamir‐Fuller   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hunting strategies, success, and sustainability: A case study in a community forest on the edge of Salonga National Park, DRC

Ecological Solutions and Evidence, Volume 7, Issue 2, April–June 2026.
In Central Africa, traditional hunting is central to the way of life of local communities. However, increasing demand for wild meat has raised concerns about the sustainability of this practice. With a year‐long analysis of hunting strategies and their impact at the outskirts of Salonga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo, we showed a ...
Josué Ausse Baraka, Mattia Bessone, Prince Baraka Lucungu, Zolo Admettons, Daov Naom Beguide Bobo, Josué Engombe Botomia, Espérance Miezi, Jonathan Nkamisha Mukole, Bénédicte Nsilu, Jean Semeki Ngabinzeke, Barbara Fruth   +10 more
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Unravelling vicious circles of land use competition and food insecurity in agropastoral rangelands

People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 4, Page 977-995, April 2026.
Abstract In many regions of the world, the adoption of new livelihood strategies that compete with traditional strategies is one driver of competition over land, resulting in unforeseen impacts on the livelihoods of land users and accelerating land degradation. One example is the Borana Zone in southern Ethiopia, where the expansion of crop cultivation
Gunnar Dressler, Lance Robinson, Birgit Müller   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Claves para la comprensión de las relaciones entre la lengua, la cultura y la sociedad yuhup: una perspectiva etnolingÜística* Hints towards the comprehension of the relationship between the yuhup language, culture and society: an ethnolinguistic perspective

Forma y Función, 2008
Este artículo ofrece una mirada etnolingüística sobre algunos aspectos del pueblo yuhup, mediante un análisis que relaciona la lengua, la sociedad y la cultura.
Ana María Ospina Bozzi
doaj  

Endogenous opposition: Identity and ideology in Kuwaiti electoral politics

American Journal of Political Science, Volume 70, Issue 2, Page 623-642, April 2026.
Abstract How do opposition elites succeed in authoritarian elections? Existing theories of authoritarian politics suggest a pivotal role for elections in enhancing the survival of incumbent dictators. Yet, in many contexts, opposition elites attract considerable support and constrain the policymaking authorities of these dictators.
Daniel L. Tavana
wiley   +1 more source

Common animals: sedentary pastoralism and the emergence of the commons as an institution

Frontiers in Human Dynamics
Animal husbandry was of fundamental consequence in the planning and development of larger and more permanent communities. Pastoralism is often assumed to be highly mobile when considering social institutions and political formations, despite the ...
Katherine Kanne, Mark Haughton, Ryan Lash   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source