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Showing 1 to 20 of 92 for “"pastoralists"”.
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Pastoralists, Peasants, and Politics in Roman North Africa
Pastoralists, Peasants, and Politics is an investigation of the interaction between nomads and sedentarists in North Africa during the period of Roman rule, with concentration on the aspects of the relationship that pertain directly to the extension of Roman political authority over the Maghrib. …
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Participation and indigenous knowledge in development for African pastoralists
… productivity and improved living standards for pastoralists. Perspectives on constraints to successful development can be divided into two major viewpoints. The dominant view, which has guided these failed attempts, blames pastoralist for traditionalism and clinging to economically irrational …
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Settlement patterns and their potential implications for livelihoods among Maasai pastoralists in northern Tanzania
In the last century, many mobile pastoralists have transitioned to more sedentary lifestyles. Mobile people can be both pushed into a more settled existence by environmental or political forces, or pulled by new economic opportunities. While researchers have examined the causes and consequences of …
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Freestyle Bearing: Work, Play, and Synergy in the Practice of Everyday Life Among Mongolian Reindeer Pastoralists
Approximately 200 people, mostly Dukhas of Tuvan ancestry, live nomadically with reindeer, horses, and dogs as ‘Tsaatans’ in the taiga of northern Mongolia. How do they effectively realize their livelihoods? Does qualifying corporeal manners, or bearings, in which livelihood practices are performed …
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By the Community, for the Community: An Investigation of Participatory Video with Karrayyu Oromo pastoralists, Ethiopia
This thesis aims to investigate the potential of Participatory Video (PV) as a method for facilitating collaborative research; and, by this methodology, produce an ethnographic description of Karrayyu Oromo community, lifestyle and culture which is accessible by and useful for community members, as …
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Human-wildlife conflict and mobile phone use among Maasai pastoralists near Tarangire National Park, northern Tanzania
Mobile phones are transforming many aspects of rural areas in the developing world. Much of the early research on phones and related information and communication technologies (ICTs) in developing countries has focused on social networking and economic benefits in primarily urban or agricultural …
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Establishing Indigenous Organic Poultry as an Integrated Alternative Sustainable Livelihood to Pastoralists at Mela Village in Tanzania’
… increased social and economic opportunities for pastoralists especially young women and young men. Findings from community needs assessment show that, pastoralists can adapt to other different occupations as integrated alternative sustainable livelihoods (IASL) despite their heavily dependence on …
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Small Scale Honey Processing Tools for Pastoralists Economic Development in Naberera Ward in Simanjiro District, Manyara Region Tanzania
In rural areas of Tanzania honey sub sector is among of the potential enterprises that accommodate most of farmers/pastoralist and small scale producers it is one of the potential and reasonably subsectors which can generate income for the poor household. That potential notwithstanding, the sub …
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Colonial and Post-colonial Rangeland Enclosures amid Climate Uncertainty: The Case of Maasai Pastoralists of Kajiado County, Kenya
… of the forceful dispossession of Maasai pastoralists by the British colonial authority. The ongoing enclosure of common resources by both state and private capital for economic gain has left the herder community exposed to the adverse effects of climate change. The purpose of this thesis …
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The use of traditional weather forecasting by agro-pastoralists of different social groups in Bobirwa sub-district, Botswana
Agro-pastoralists of Bobirwa sub-district depend mainly on rain-fed agriculture as a source of their livelihood. However, this agro-pastoralism is affected by climatic variability. Advanced warning of upcoming weather information is, therefore, important in informing farming decisions. Traditional …
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Assessing the role of local Authority institutions on peasants-pastoralists land use conflict mitigation in Tanzania, a case of Kishapu District
Peasant-pastoralists land use conflict remains to be the most serious resource-use conflict in Tanzania. The study investigated the role of local authority institutions on land use conflict mitigation between peasants and pastoralists in Kishapu district, Tanzania. A case study design was adapted. …
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Assessing the role of local Authority institutions on peasants-pastoralists land use conflict mitigation in Tanzania, a case of Kishapu District
Peasant-pastoralists land use conflict remains to be the most serious resource-use conflict in Tanzania. The study investigated the role of local authority institutions on land use conflict mitigation between peasants and pastoralists in Kishapu district, Tanzania. A case study design was adapted. …
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An archaeological, anthropological study of the human skeletal remains from the Oakhurst Rockshelter, George, Cape Province, Southern Africa
… that agriculturalists and transitional agro/pastoralists are more stressed than the hunter gatherers who preceded t hem. This is evinced by mortality profiles, mean age at death and the number and extent of stressors observed in the skeleton such as enamel hypoplasiae, porotic hyperostosis …
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A Line in the Sand: Archaeological Evidence for the Interactions of Settled Farmers and Mobile Pastoralists in the Late Bronze Age (1950 - 1500 BC) Murghab alluvial fan, Turkmenistan
… between distinct cultural communities of mobile pastoralists and sedentary farmers in southern Central Asia. To evaluate long-held conceptions of mobile-sedentary relationships here, this study presents some of the first empirical archaeological data from mobile pastoralist occupation sites. …
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The Comparative Ecology of the Brown Hyaena (Hyaena brunnea) in Makgadikgadi National Park and a Neighbouring Community Cattle Area in Botswana
… Wildlife Management Area where local subsistence pastoralists live. The responses of the pastoralists to a questionnaire designed to document their perceptions of and attitudes towards brown hyaenas and other carnivores that live in the vicinity of their residences, were also analysed. Brown …
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The Materiality of Mobile Pastoralism: Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives from Samburu, Kenya
… held by many that nomadic populations such as pastoralists are difficult to trace in the archaeological record. Results from ethnographic research among modern Samburu cattle pastoralists in Kenya in fact challenge common archaeological assumptions about relationships between mobility, …
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The Ecology of Pastoralism in Relation to Changing Patterns of Land Use in the Northeast Peloponnese
… and effectiveness of the adaptations of village pastoralists in the Argolid under conditions of agricultural intensification, changing land use, increasing market penetration and cash flow, and general population increase. The study will describe and analyse the response of the shepherd …
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Wearing an amulet: Land titling and tenure (in) security in Tanzania
… – a pastoralist NGO, and the smallholders and pastoralists village residents, to achieve their different goals. The government of Tanzania are focussed on attracting inward investment, loans and development. Civil society groups promote titling for their members as a defensive mechanism against …
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Stable carbon isotopes and prehistoric diets in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
… includes 67 skeletons of hunter-gatherers, pastoralists and agriculturalists from the Holocene of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. The aims of the thesis include the testing, through direct quantitative measurements, of the validity of archaeological conclusions about prehistoric …
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