The factors driving the composition of gut microbiota are still only partly understood but appear to include environmental, cultural, and genetic factors. In order to obtain more insight into the relative importance of these factors, we analyzed the microbiome composition in subjects of Tibetan or Han descent living at different altitudes. DNA was isolated from stool samples. Using polymerase c...

ARTICLES The Ecology of Early Food Production in Mesopotamia: K. V. Flannery Prehistoric farmers and herders exploited a series of adjacent but contrasting climatic zones. Crystallization and Molecular Folding: P. H. Lindenmeyer The properties of high polymers are very sensitive to the way molecules fold during crystallization. Meteorites and the Moon: H. C. Urey ..................................

This paper examines strategies implemented by the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in order to resolve frequent clashes between herders and farmers, bearing mind economic implications of this violent conflict for economy Nigeria. The adopted Human Needs Theory as its framework analysis. data were sourced from academic journals, internet materials, newspapers, textbooks. herders–farme...

Abstract The categories and concepts in the existing official land-use maps have been under improvements over recent years; however, this study from Nordland, northern Norway, shows that they continue to pose several dilemmas when aiming better capture impacts of multiple land uses on reindeer herding. While these developments done much communicate presence herding developers planners, there re...

Based on the principle of “who protects and benefits will compensate”, in recent years, many Chinese herders have begun to voluntarily participate sustainable grassland ecological compensation by donating money. However, this traditional strategy may brought about “the tragedy commons”. A new described as “wealthy pay money, ordinary supervision, relevant departments post a list participants at...

The 1993 and 1995 Oslo accords resulted in the classification of the West Bank into three zones, referred to as Areas A, B and C. Area A is under Palestinian civil and security authority; Area B is under the Palestinian Authority while security responsibilities are shared by both the Israeli and the Palestinian authorities. Area C which comprises around 60 percent of the West Bank is under Isra...

Farmer-herder conflict is an age-old phenomenon, which widely spread in the West African sub-region. Current studies on Ghanaian farmer-herder have emphasised land-related conflicts between indigenous farmers and nomadic herders. It has focused especially environmental scarcity climate change approaches. However, this study adopts political ecology framework to highlight land migrant herders, t...