BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Globally, children aged under five years are prone to malnutrition. Maasai are a nomadic community in Kenya still upholding traditional and has a high rate of child undernutrition. Consideration of cultural practices is a pre-condition for ensuring appropriate dietary practices. However, information on the influence of culture on dietary practices among Maasai children...

Under the prevailing variable natural conditions nomadic pastoralism was the most suitable form of land use in Mongolia and the neighboring countries in the past. Furthermore, small areas were used for agriculture in some regions. Therefore, anthropogenic influence was present throughout history. In the forest steppe zone this led to the disappearance of forest sites which then gave way to mead...

THE Sudan is one of the largest African countries with an area of about 2.5 million km2 and 18.5 million people. It is a predominantly agricultural country with a large development potential, especially in agriCUlture and livestock production. Its estimated agricultural land is more than 800 million ha although at present only about 7 million ha are under cultivation. Of the latter, only 1.6 mi...

The Maasai of northern Tanzania, a semi-nomadic ethnic group predominantly reliant on pastoralism, face a number of challenges anticipated to have negative impacts on child health, including marginalisation, vulnerabilities to drought, substandard service provision and on-going land grabbing conflicts. Yet, stemming from a lack of appropriate national survey data, no large-scale comparative stu...

In-home nomadic user interfaces are expected to enhance the quality of domestic life. They will increase mobility as users will be able to move freely within the home, maintaining the technology-mediated activity regardless of devices’ user interface attributes, and enhance the interaction in terms of efficiency, experience, and sociability, as users will be able to move applications to other, ...

Much like subsistence farmers the world over, Mongolian herders depend directly on their herds for food, materials, and income. Consequently, any loss of livestock through predation from wild carnivores (including wolves, foxes, snow leopards, birds prey) is a major challenge. With lack non-lethal mitigation methods currently available to them, in Mongolia frequently manage conflict with predat...

17 18 The prevalence of mycobacterial infection among lactating Fulani cows was investigated in 19 the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja and Kaduna State of Nigeria. Tuberculin testing 20 using single comparative intradermal tuberculin test (SCITT) showed a 14.6% positive, 4% 21 doubtful and 81.4% negative reactors. Mycobacterial infection was found to be present in the 22 nomadic (constan...