Dynamics of grazing rights and their impact on mobile cattle herders ...

Dynamics of access to pastoral resources in a farming area ...

... herders usually benefit from the liberty to let their cattle graze under the ... herders face in negotiating claim-rights of access besides their ...

Historical Ecologies of Pastoralist Overgrazing in Kenya: Long-Term ...

Livestock are now perennially present where herders previously moved seasonally in accordance with grazing conditions (e.g., Huho et al.2010).

The Changing Face of Cattle Raising and Forest Grazing ... - BioOne

Results indicated that cattle owners' perceptions, aptitudes, and attitudes are changing and that rural interventions need to take these changes ...

Evidence from the anti-open grazing laws in Nigeria - EconStor

significant pressure on herders by limiting their access to pastures, forcing them to move their livestock ... dynamics, suggesting a persistent influence of ...

Farmers' and Herders' Perceptions on Rangeland Management in ...

In contrast, herders perceived transhumance as an opportunity to valorize unused land and increase the availability of manure to cropland. The prevalent ...

LEARNING FROM LOCAL KNOWLEDGE: MODELING THE ...

... herders have earned their living by keeping cattle and small stock. ... influence of rainfall fluctuations and grazing on pasture dynamics ...

Climate change mitigation as a co-benefit of regenerative ranching

Understanding why ranchers adopt managed grazing is key to developing the right incentives. In this paper, we explore principles and practices ...

Regional Policies and Response to Manage Pastoral Movements ...

... there is considerable hostility towards mobile herders and their animals. In ... There are even fears that the Fulani use their supposed right to Grazing Reserves ...

Stopping Nigeria's Spiralling Farmer-Herder Violence | Crisis Group

... grazing – thus prohibiting herders' longstanding practice of letting their livestock forage unrestrained – took effect. From 1 to 7 January ...

Cattle transhumance and agropastoral nomadic herding practices in ...

Currently, the little recorded information of the migratory routes, grazing locations and nomadic herding practices adopted by pastoralists, ...

CAUSES OF FARMER– HERDER CONFLICTS IN AFRICA

... Cattle rights versus human rights: herdsmen– farmer clashes in Nigeria ... how land use change and complex farmer–grazier conflicts impact grazing management in ...

Grazing Lands, Livestock and Climate Resilient Mitigation - cifor-icraf

In addition, climate change is already having an impact (changing rainfall and temperature regimes) in arid and semi-arid regions of Sub-Saharan Africa where ...

Factors and Practices that Influence Livestock Distribution

Cattle limit evening grazing and increase afternoon grazing when winter temperatures are below their thermal comfort zone. When the forage supply is limited, ...

Livestock grazing systems and sustainable development in the ...

The vegetation on their rangelands had rest periods. The land situation and dynamics of the rangelands may therefore lead to high-impact livestock farming ...

MANAGEMENT OF LIVESTOCK USING ROTATIONAL GRAZING

This is augmented by goat milk, as well as subsistence meat consumption and the sale of older cows, sheep and goats. An increase in milk yield ...

Pastoralism as Conservation Strategy Uganda Country Paper

rely on livestock and depend on a finite grazing area around their ... 'tracking' strategies of mobile animals, along with many other adaptations herders and.

i WHEN LIVESTOCK ARE GOOD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

The system was monitored continuously for 12 years for its environmental and socio-economic impacts. The controlled grazing experiment enclosed an area of ...

Understanding the Herder-Farmer Conflict in Nigeria - ACCORD

The grazing reserves allocated large portions of land to be exclusively used by herders to rear their livestock. However, the grazing ...

An African Journal of Arts and Humanities. Vol. 6. No. 6. ISSN: 2488

Past and present attempts at regulating cattle grazing appear to be ineffective in Nigeria, hence, the various veiled political attempts to ...

Effects of grazing by free‐ranging cattle on vegetation dynamics in a ...

The cattle used habitats and dominant species in an uneven fashion. Time–budget studies and records of numbers of bites over 24-h periods ...