In remote areas, the premises of mobile dwellings are heated by traditional fuel stoves. This includes homes for farmers and field workers. However, a problem with supply may arise when home is located at significant distance from settlement. Thus, it possible to use solar energy heating homes. For space heating, study was conducted using heater carbon fiber heat-generating flexible material st...

The ethnographic mission to Armenia carried out by the NHASA International Associated Laboratory (LIA France-Armenia) was established observe pastoral practices of Yezidi and Armenian herders in a territory affected 1988 earthquake, collapse USSR period independence, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. political geographical stakes prevailing this country at beginning 21st century describe drunkenness s...

Abstract In recent years, meat production and consumption has become a topic of intense debate for environmental, animal welfare health reasons. Research on more sustainable alternatives to increased. Our goal is gain insight into the purchase from transhumance livestock explore main factors driving this process. This type respectful towards environment welfare, provides financial stability man...

Twelve lactating cattle × yak hybrids (B. taurus × B. grunniens) were investigated on five experimental pastures (Sites 1-5), following an up- and downward transhumance route (3,200, 4,000, 4,500, 4,000 and 2,600 m a.s.l.). Hybrids were kept in replicated groups of two (low SD) and four animals per paddock (high SD). As a control, yaks (with calves) were included at low SD at Sites 2-4. Perform...

This paper briefly narrates the historical and present challenges facing sheep herders in the Kyrgyz Republic. Originally these were nomads employing an horizontal and vertical migration system, but Russian conquest and settlement forced this to change to a system of transhumance. The latter, albeit structured in a collective system, was more or less maintained throughout the communist period. ...

Supporting species persistence may involve (re)connecting suitable habitats. However, for many declining species habitat suitability and drivers of establishment are poorly known. We addressed this experimentally for a declining flagship species of dry grasslands in Germany, Armeria maritima subsp. elongata. In three regions, we sowed seeds from each of eight source populations back to their or...

Grabbing of pastoralists’ traditional land to put it under the commercial farming system, which has widely been adopted as a development and investment strategy in Sudan, is creating a cruel dilemma of increasing both resource conflict and environmental degradation. This is one of the fundamental reasons that the country has earned the reputation as a home of bloody c...

Limited data are available on the risk factors responsible for the occurrence of brucellosis amongst different cattle production systems in Nigeria despite its significant impact on livestock production. Consequently, a cross-sectional study was conducted to determine the prevalence of bovine brucellosis in three cattle production systems in Yewa Division of Ogun State, south-western Nigeria. A...