Muhammad Khurshid, Muhammad Nafees, Inam-ur-Rahim and Wajid Rashid
...itionally used by mobile pastoralists for livestock grazing during summer. Since the late 1980’s, these pastures have been used for off season vegetables cultivation which leads to change the traditional mobile pastoral system. This study was carried out in Naran valley in 2015, to understand the agriculture land use changes during the past three decades and its impacts on traditional mobile pastoral system. For this purpose, participatory discussions, G...
Muhammad Khurshid1,2*, Muhammad Nafees1, Mehmet Somuncu2
... and subsequent landless pastoralist’s marginalization in uplands of Naran. Extensive field surveys carried out during last three years (2013-2016) to understand crops encroachment process and its implications for pastoral resources. Land use-classes such as forest, agriculture, pastures and snow cover were recorded by means of Global Positioning System (GPS) and further processed to develop maps by using Geographic Information System (GIS). The impacts ...
Muhammad Jamal Nasir*, Anwar Saeed Khan, Said Alam and Riyasat Sultan
...wn country. Transhumance pastoralists are very productive yet socially neglected population group of society. They remain a resource, a system of producing meat and milk etc. This resource need to upheld and managed effectively by understanding the mechanism of transhumance and pastoral society as widely as possible, making both policy and the effective management of natural resources. ...
A. W. Jasra and I. Ahmad
...ist of settled/sedentary pastoralists, transhumant pastrolists and nomadic pastoralists. The sedentary community has shifted from pastrol livelihood to agra-pastoral, however, livestock still remains major component of its household economy. Water shortage has emerged as major problem for this community due to prolonged drought conditions and excessive mining of ground water for agriculture. The highest concern of transhum...
Tesfaye Edjem1,2, Yisehak Kechero2*, Asrat Guja2
...le in the livelihoods of pastoralists, agro-pastoralists, and small-scale mixed farmers in tropical countries, serving as a source of assets, food, income, and social status. This study investigated fattening practices and market dynamics in three production systems—pastoral, agro-pastoral, and mixed farming systems—in the Southern Ethiopian Rift Valley. Data were collected from 371 participants using a structure...
Mathew O. Ayoola1*, Akingbolabo D. Ogunlakin2, Abel O. Oguntunji1
...mi-sedentary and nomadic pastoralists. These pastoralists have little or no access to prompt modern veterinary medical interventions and thereby depend mostly on ethno-veterinary medicine. Recently, it has been documented that alkaloids, terpenoids, and flavonoids from these medicinal plants boost the quality and quantity of milk production. Meanwhile, there is a paucity of information on those medicinal plants and other ind...
