Livestock mobility in sub-Saharan Africa: A critical review

MD Turner, E Schlecht - Pastoralism, 2019 - Springer
Livestock mobility is a complex concept holding many different meanings for observers of
pastoralism. The movement of African pastoralists with their livestock has historically been …

Landscape sustainability science in the drylands: mobility, rangelands and livelihoods

C Liao, A Agrawal, PE Clark, SA Levin… - Landscape Ecology, 2020 - Springer
Context The global drylands cover 41% of the terrestrial surface and support millions of
pastoralists and host diverse flora and fauna. Ongoing socioeconomic and environmental …

Livelihood security in face of drought–assessing the vulnerability of pastoral households

R Martin, A Linstädter, K Frank, B Müller - Environmental Modelling & …, 2016 - Elsevier
Livestock grazing in drylands supports pastoral livelihoods but is facing multiple changes
including shocks such as severe droughts. Herdsmen specifically cite drought events as a …

Political ecology II: Engagements with ecology

MD Turner - Progress in Human Geography, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
This report provides an update to Peter Walker's 2005 report that questioned the degree to
which political ecologists substantively incorporate ecology in their analyses. Since the …

Human population growth, African pastoralism, and rangelands: A perspective

JL Holechek, AF Cibils, K Bengaly… - Rangeland ecology & …, 2017 - Elsevier
Pastoral livestock production systems in Africa that have existed for centuries are now
threatened by changing demographics, improved communications, increased availability of …

Characterising the land surface phenology of Africa using 500 m MODIS EVI

T Adole, J Dash, PM Atkinson - Applied geography, 2018 - Elsevier
Vegetation phenological studies at different spatial and temporal scales offer better
understanding of the relationship between the global climate and the global distribution of …

Disentangling effects of climate and land-use change on West African drylands' forage supply

J Ferner, S Schmidtlein, RT Guuroh, J Lopatin… - Global Environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
Livestock rearing is the most important agricultural activity in global drylands, making forage
supply an essential ecosystem service (ES). Most drylands are expected to experience …

Remote sensing of vegetation in the Sudano-Sahelian zone: A literature review from 1975 to 2014

M Karlson, M Ostwald - Journal of Arid Environments, 2016 - Elsevier
Scarcity of in situ vegetation data inhibits research and natural resource management in the
Sudano-Sahelian zone (SSZ). Satellite and aerial remote sensing (RS) constitute key …

Analysis of GPS trajectories to assess spatio-temporal differences in grazing patterns and land use preferences of domestic livestock in southwestern Madagascar

T Feldt, E Schlecht - Pastoralism, 2016 - Springer
In order to investigate spatial and temporal characteristics of the purely grazing-based
livestock husbandry system in southwestern Madagascar, individual animals from 12 cattle …

Variability is not uncertainty; mobility is not flexibility: Clarifying concepts in pastoralism studies with evidence from Tajikistan

K Gillin - Pastoralism, 2021 - Springer
As the “new rangeland paradigm” took shape in the 1990s, climatic variability in pastoral
ecosystems was often discussed as “uncertainty”, and the essential mobility of pastoral …