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Artificial pastoral systems: a review of agent-based modelling studies of pastoral systems
Agent-based modelling allows researchers to build artificial pastoral systems that are spatially explicit and allow for the examination of complex...
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Integration and adoption of climate resilient management practices for enhanced productivity of sheep and goats in pastoral communities of Northern Kenya
Interventions to improve productivity in pastoral livestock systems of northern Kenya focus on the management of the rangeland resources and grazing...
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Dynamics of Land Management and Implications on Pastoral Livelihoods in Northern Tanzania
Pastoralism as a mode of production has had an important bearing on the livelihoods of many people in arid and semiarid environments. In the recent...
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Modeling a pastoral social–ecological system and its application to climate risk assessment of traditional livelihoods
Climate extremes affect ecosystems and people’s livelihoods, especially those that depend on them. Increasing extreme events such as droughts due to...
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Nature’s contribution to people provided by pastoral systems across European, African, and Middle East Mediterranean countries: trends, approaches and gaps
Mediterranean pastoral systems are providers of a wide array of Nature’s Contribution to People (NCP). They are ‘complex systems’ characterized by...
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Over-reliance on water infrastructure can hinder climate resilience in pastoral drylands
Extreme droughts are affecting millions of livestock farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, causing water shortages, famines, migration and fatalities. The...
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Climate variability impacts on pasture productivity and pastoral livelihoods in northern Tanzania
Seasonality of rainfall is a key determinant of pasture availability, herd productivity, and hence pastoral livelihoods. Insufficient rain reduces...
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Suburban pastoralists: Pastoral adaptation strategies at the rural-urban interface in Nairobi, Kenya
How does urban expansion interact with pastoral climate change adaptation? This article explores pastoral adaptation strategies at the rural-urban...
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Exploring complementarity among interdependent pastoral institutions in Mongolia
This article combines Aoki’s institutional complementarity concept with actor-centered institutional analysis of action situations to study herder...
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Livelihood transformation of farmers and herdsmen in the agro-pastoral ecotone from the perspective of ecological protection: a case study of the Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County, China
The livelihood transformation for farmers and herdsmen based on the perspective of ecological protection is an important means of achieving green...
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Can formalisation of pastoral land tenure overcome its paradoxes? Reflections from East Africa
Legal frameworks for communal land rights in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania are now gaining momentum. Questions can be raised as to whether, how, and...
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Temporal climate conditions and spatial drought patterns across rangelands in pastoral areas of West Guji and Borana zones, Southern Ethiopia
Climate change and its variability adversely impact pastoral livelihoods, and understanding climate variability and its change is important to deduce...
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Pastoral practices, pressures, and human-wildlife relations in high altitude rangelands of eastern Himalaya: A case study of the Dokpa pastoralists of North Sikkim
The pastoral practices of the Dokpa herders of North Sikkim have been transforming in response to the geo-political and socio-economic changes in the...
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Is elemental stoichiometry (C, N, P) of soil and soil microbial biomass influenced by management modes and soil depth in agro-pastoral transitional zone of northern China?
PurposeSoil and soil microbial biomass carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) are the most common elements and key macronutrients that play an...
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Gendered asymmetry of access to knowledge for brucellosis control among pastoral communities in north-west Côte d’Ivoire
Brucellosis is an infectious zoonotic disease considered as a threat to public health and pastoralist livelihoods. Symptoms of the disease can lead...
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Participatory rangeland management: A vehicle for pastoralist women’s empowerment in Ethiopia
Pastoralist tenure systems are highly complex. Where customary institutions are functioning well, pastoralist women access and use resources as a...
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Undernutrition and its associated factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care at public health facilities in pastoral communities of Afar Regional State, northeast Ethiopia
BackgroundMaternal malnutrition during pregnancy increases the risk of miscarriages and foetal deaths, pre-term delivery, and maternal mortality....
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Pastoral livelihood pathways transitions in northern Kenya: The process and impact of drought
Recurrent droughts and long-term changes to climate, social structures, and the economy in the world’s arid and semi-arid lands have impacted...
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The decreasing availability of reindeer forage in boreal forests during snow cover periods: A Sámi pastoral landscape perspective in Sweden
This paper argues that Sámi reindeer pastoralism in Sweden is highly stressed during the critical snow cover periods due to large-scale human...
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Effects of development interventions on pastoral livelihoods in Turkana County, Kenya
Turkana County has a long history of drought and development interventions and remains one of the poorest counties in Kenya. In Turkana, livelihoods...
