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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.Leeuw, Jan deTurner, M.D.Said, Mohammed Yahya[Challenges of assessing the sustainability of (agro)-pastoral systems]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.Hiernaux, Pierre H.Y.[Changing access to labor, pastures, and knowledge: the extensification of grazing management in Sudano-Sahelian West Africa]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.Hiernaux, Pierre H.Y.[The use of herders' accounts to map livestock activities across agropastoral landscapes in Semi-Arid Africa]The use of herders' accounts to map livestock activities across agropastoral landscapes in Semi-Arid Africa

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.Turner, M.D.Kalilou, A.[Participatory analysis of vulnerability to drought in three agro-pastoral communities in the West African Sahel]Participatory analysis of vulnerability to drought in three agro-pastoral communities in the West African Sahel

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