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Land cover transitions and effects of transhumance on available forage biomass of rangelands in Benin

open access: yesEnvironment, Development and Sustainability, 2021
This study examined the effects of transhumance pressure on total abavoe-ground biomass and forage availability on rangelands in Benin. We also investigated the implications of land cover transitions on rangelands over a 31-year period.
J. Ellison   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Entwined economies of violence: understanding borderland conflict and resource politics in northern Kenya

open access: yesDisasters, Volume 50, Issue 2, April 2026.
Abstract This article explores longstanding conflict between Turkana and Pokot pastoralist communities in northern Kenya, close to the country's border with Uganda. Conflict in this region has consistently defied interventions by both governments and development organisations.
Daniel Salau Rogei
wiley   +1 more source

Analyse typologique des transhumances ovines de la région de Djelfa : Quel type pour quel avenir [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
La transhumance constitue une pratique courante de l'elevage ovin agropastoral. Elle permet l'acces a des patures supplementaires. Toutefois, cette pratique qui contribue a l'equilibre des systemes alimentaires connait des difficultes. Pour se maintenir,
Bellahrache, Ahmed   +4 more
core  

Cattle logic and capital logic: the recalcitrance of transhumance in the establishment of private grazing lands in North West Nigeria

open access: yesGeoJournal
Livelihoods associated with transhumance cattle production are increasingly decimated and threatened by serious loss of human lives due to increasing competition for resources as driven by cattle logic and capital logic, thus the plan and drive for ...
O. Oladele, Danlami Yakubu, O. Oladele
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Framing European Heritage and Identity: Cultural Policy Instruments of the European Union

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 859-880, March 2026.
Abstract This submission examines the impact of the European Union (EU) policy efforts to construct a European Heritage and a sense of belonging within the wider European population on Heritage policy. The article explores how the EU has selected and wielded instruments that frame particular values that (1) respond to specific policy problems and ...
Anthony R. Zito, Susannah Eckersley
wiley   +1 more source

Along the Silenced Footsteps of Latin American Pastoralists: From Mexico to Argentina, a Journey Through Pastoral Systems in Latin America

open access: yesThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Pastoralism worldwide faces a complex landscape of increased pressures and exclusion. Beyond ecological and economic challenges, pastoralists suffer eroding cultural identity, limited generational renewal, and political marginalization. Yet pastoral livelihoods are increasingly recognized as stewards of sustainable futures and amongst the best
Greta Semplici, Pablo Manzano
wiley   +1 more source

Transhumance in the Time of UNESCO: Political Narratives, Rhetorical Representations, Enhancement Practices

open access: yesMartor
In recent years, there has been a resurgence of tourist and economic interest in transhumance in Sardinia and more generally Italy. Previously viewed as a hindrance to sheep farming development and associated with isolation, sacrifice, and uncertainty ...
Sebastiano Mannia
doaj   +1 more source

Transhumance in the Tigray highlands (Ethiopia) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Transhumance, the seasonal movement of herds occurring between two points and following precise routes repeated each year, is practiced on a broad scale in the open field areas of Tigray (North Ethiopia).
Deckers, J.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Objects as Knowledgeable Elders: Lessons From the Reindeer Calf Halter Mȯnggu̇i

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This article presents ongoing research that reconnects a historical ethnographic collection housed in a European museum with the descendants of its source communities in the transnational Inner Asian region, specifically among the Tozhu and Tukha reindeer herders of the Tyva Republic and Mongolia.
Victoria Soyan Peemot
wiley   +1 more source

PASTORAL TRANSHUMANCE IN MĂRGINIMEA SIBIULUI [PDF]

open access: yesRevue Roumaine de Géographie, 2016
This paper deals with certain aspects of a traditional activity practiced in a mountain-hilly region from southern Transylvania, called Mărginimea Sibiului.
ION VELCEA   +3 more
doaj  

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