Pastoralism is not only a livestock-based livelihood strategy but also a way of life with socio-cultural norms and values, and indigenous knowledge revolving around livestock. Pastoral systems in Africa are facing demographic, economic, socio-political and climatic pressures which are driving man...
Ayantunde, Augustine A.
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Leeuw, Jan de
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Turner, M.D.
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Said, Mohammed Yahya
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[Challenges of assessing the sustainability of (agro)-pastoral systems]
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Challenges of assessing the sustainability of (agro)-pastoral systems
The broader ecological and social contexts within which livestock husbandry of Sudano-Sahelian West Africa operates have changed significantly over the past thirty years. This study concerns how: (1) these broader trends have affected the quantity and quality of labor investments into livestock h...
Turner, M.D.
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Hiernaux, Pierre H.Y.
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[Changing access to labor, pastures, and knowledge: the extensification of grazing management in Sudano-Sahelian West Africa]
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Changing access to labor, pastures, and knowledge: the extensification of grazing management in Sudano-Sahelian West Africa
Improved understandings of the agricultural and range ecologies of semi-arid Africa require better information on the spatiotemporal distribution of domestic livestock across agropastoral landscapes. An empirical GIS-based approach was developed for estimating distributions of herded livestock a...
Turner, M.D.
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Hiernaux, Pierre H.Y.
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[The use of herders' accounts to map livestock activities across agropastoral landscapes in Semi-Arid Africa]
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The use of herders' accounts to map livestock activities across agropastoral landscapes in Semi-Arid Africa
Farmer-herder conflicts are enduring features of social life in the Sudano-Sahelian zone.
A survey was carried out between August and December 2004 in four sites in Niger,
namely Bokki, Katanga, Sabon Gida and Tountoubé to determine the proximate and
long-term causes of conflict over natural reso...
Turner, M.D.
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Ayantunde, Augustine A.
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Patterson, E.D.
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Patterson, K.P.
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[Farmer-herder relations and conflict management in agro-pastoral zone of Niger]
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Farmer-herder relations and conflict management in agro-pastoral zone of Niger
Drought is one of the major climatic hazards impacting on the various sectors including crop and livestock in the West African Sahel. Pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in the region are regularly affected by drought, with vulnerability differing with gender, age, wealth status (access to cro...
Ayantunde, Augustine A.
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Turner, M.D.
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Kalilou, A.
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[Participatory analysis of vulnerability to drought in three agro-pastoral communities in the West African Sahel]
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Participatory analysis of vulnerability to drought in three agro-pastoral communities in the West African Sahel