Pastoralism - Wikipedia
Pastoralism remains a way of life in many geographic areas, including Africa, the Tibetan plateau, the Eurasian steppes, the Andes, Patagonia, the Pampas, Australia and many other places. As of 2019, between 200 million and 500 million people globally practiced pastoralism, and 75% of all countries had pastoral communities. [4]
Overview: Pastoralism in the World - SpringerLink
2016年8月31日 · Currently, extensive pastoralism occurs on about 25 % of Earth’s land area, mostly in the developing world, from the drylands of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula to the highlands of Asia and Latin America.
Pastoralism: Indigenous Way of Mitigating Climate and
2019年11月28日 · Pastoralism enables communities to manage their resources in a sustainable, independent and flexible way. It is marked by rights to common resources, customary values and ecosystem services. Pastoralism could be also viewed as the branch of agriculture concerned with the breeding of domesticated herbivorous animals in rangeland areas.
Toward a holistic understanding of pastoralism - ScienceDirect
2021年5月21日 · Here, we propose a transdisciplinary research approach to understand pastoralist transitions using (1) social, economic, and environmental dimensions, (2) diverse geographic contexts and scales to capture emerging properties, allowing for cross-system comparisons, and (3) timescales from the distant past to the present.
Pastoral areas and actors: between pastoralism and pastorality
Why and how is this notion emerging today? What does this say about the changes affecting pastoral areas and actors? Does it correspond to a greening of the rhetoric, a heritagization of activities, and/or the development of practices that are becoming more ecological?
responses in pastoral areas of the Sudano-Sahel and the Greater Horn of Africa. The project focuses on how early warning systems and humanitarian responses in pastoral areas can be more aligned to the realities and local needs of communities, thereby improving the lives and livelihoods of pastoralists. Reexamining early warning systems and
Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Resilience: Global Lessons from the ...
2019年7月25日 · Learning from pastoral areas to develop a novel cross-disciplinary theoretical framework for thinking and acting, focused on the relationships between uncertainty, resilience and development in the context of rapid change.
Pastoralism and its future - The New Humanitarian
2017年10月24日 · According to the African Union, pastoral areas occupy about 40 percent of Africa’s landmass and are found in almost all of the continent’s countries, mostly in arid or semi-arid areas that in many cases suffer from historic marginalisation, a dearth of basic services such as roads, markets, clean water, schools and healthcare, and misguided deve...
Confronting Uncertainties in Pastoral Areas in: Social …
2023年12月1日 · Pastoralists must continuously confront uncertainties, responding to high levels of variability and volatility where the future is unknown. Yet mainstream modernising development in pastoral areas aims to create stability through control, enacted through restrictive plans and …
Pastoral areas and actors: between pastoralism and “pastorality”
2013年5月31日 · Today, however, pastoralism appears to be enjoying recognition as a prudent method of managing semi-natural areas. There is evidence that this activity is increasingly used in mountain areas to help revitalize a sluggish local economy (Cournil, 2010).