Abstract Background One Health approaches such as the Joint human and animal vaccination programmes (JHAVP) are shown to be feasible increase health care access hard-to-reach communities mobile pastoralists. However, financial sustainability integration into public systems at district level of still challenging. The main objective present study was give insight feasibility JHAVP integrated part...

Herd dynamics of Boran Pastoralists Contemporary policy debates are rife with discussions of “poverty traps” which describe structural features of the state of poverty that cause it to persist. Different factors may give rise to different types of poverty traps: there may be groups within a population for whom there exists a unique equilibrium associated with persistent poverty and others who f...

 Degradation of grassland and the environment restricting access to grazing resources increased pastoral vulnerability to drought and loss of livestock assets which pose threat to pastoral based livelihoods. In respond to these threats many pastoral communities diversify their livelihood to agro-pastoralism. This shift led to increased sedentarization of the pastoralists with many growing crops...

The camel is a comparatively hardy animal and is less susceptible to many of the diseases that affect other livestock species in the same areas. Despite that, the camel may contract many other diseases, some of which are still unknown. Pastoralists have for centuries herded camels in the arid and semi-arid areas of Kenya, and elsewhere in the Horn of Africa, and they have encountered and named ...

Pastoralists in sub-Saharan Africa are particularly vulnerable to changing climatic conditions and heavily affected by an increasing frequency of severe droughts. To increase drought resilience, livestock index insurance constitutes a promising tool that is aligned mitigate covariate risks. Uptake rates for these products are, however, relatively low. This article uses choice-experimental data ...

In the drylands of Africa, pastoralists have been facing new challenges, including those related to environmental shocks and stresses. In northern Kenya, under conditions of reduced rainfall and more frequent droughts, one response has been for pastoralists to focus increasingly on camel herding. Camels have started to be kept at higher altitudes and by people who rarely kept camels before. The...

In-country migration is widespread in South Asia, and the region hosts world’s largest number of out-of-school children. Yet relationship between internal inclusion formal education has received only limited academic policy attention. The Agenda 2030 pledge to leave no-one behind prompts us argue that when it comes migrating children, systems Asia are ontological crisis. Cases mobile pastoralis...

In discussions around food systems and the climate, livestock is often painted as villain. While some production in places contributes significantly to climate change, this not universally case. This article focuses on pastoral – extensive, mobile using marginal rangelands across half of world’s surface, involving many millions people. By examining assumptions behind standard calculations green...

Vaccination services for people and livestock often fail to achieve sufficient coverages in Africa's remote rural settings because of financial, logistic, and service delivery constraints. In Chad from 2000 through 2005, we demonstrated the feasibility of combining vaccination programs for nomadic pastoralists and their livestock. Sharing of transport logistics and equipment between physicians ...