Support for range management interventions by the World Bank and other international development institutions has a somewhat checkered history. In certain respects, this has mirrored theoretical developments and shifts in thinking among rangeland professionals, but the relationship between rangeland science and development policy and practice is far from direct. It is mediated by contextual fac...

The recent drought in the Horn of Africa has again generated widespread pessimism about the future of pastoralism in the region. In this paper we argue that a much more balanced development strategy needs to be adopted in pastoralist areas. First, livelihood diversification must become a positive process, through education, infrastructure, and policies facilitating migration and nonfarm investm...

In this paper, I examine how some nomadic pastoralists in Iran changed their use of the physical environment over the past thirty years and how these changes related to their economic practices. I base this paper on my anthropological research among Qashqa’i nomadic pastoralists in southwestern Iran in the 1970s and 1990s, including eight visits since the revolution in 1978-1979 and the Islamic...

Pastoral livestock production as a primary source of livelihood is increasingly becoming unsustainable due to the rapidly changing social context, perennial cattle rustling, unpredictable climatic conditions, and rapid population growth. Migration in response these changes context has often increased competition for land natural resources between farmers pastoralists. Using survey data from 1,7...

Under the impact of climate change, pastoral areas China have experienced increasing frequency and intensity extreme events, which has brought more challenges to pastoralists’ livelihood. Adaptive governance refers resilience through collaborative, flexible, learning-oriented management on different scales form a set political, social, economic, administrative systems for development, managemen...

Nomadic pastoralism has thrived in Asia’s rangelands for several millennia by tracking seasonal changes in forage productivity and coping with a harsh climate. This pastoralist lifestyle, however, has come under intense transformations in recent decades due to socio-political and land use changes. One example is of the high-altitude trans-Himalayan rangelands of the Jammu and Kashmir State in n...

Rarely human communities coexist in harmony with large predators. Most often communities suffer due to predation on their stock while large carnivores suffer losses and at times extirpation due to retaliation. We examine the mechanisms permitting the coexistence of Asiatic lions (Panthera leo persica) and pastoral communities (Maldharis) in the Gir forests, India. We monitored six Maldhari sett...

Improving the life satisfaction of ecological migrants is important for promoting construction an civilisation. Based on using sustainable livelihood theory and social adaptation to construct analytical framework satisfaction, we innovatively include capital, adaptation, in same research framework. Using microscopic data Kazakh herders Kalajun, Xinjiang, empirically analyse effects capital herd...