Livestock production is a key income source in eastern Africa, and 80% of 22 the total agricultural land is used for livestock herding. Hence, ecological and 23 socio-economically sustainable rangeland management is crucial. Our study aimed at 24 selecting operational economic, environmental and social sustainability indicators for three 25 main pastoral (P), agro-pastoral (AP), and landless in...

Globally, the utilization of alternative protein sources in livestock feed has been extensively deliberated and established to be best novel approach. Extensive research indicated that insects provide good opportunities as a sustainable, high quality, low-cost component animal feed. The use diet sounds prospective opportunity leading sustainability feeds meet intensifying worldwide plea for pro...

The need to feed livestock of herdsmen necessitates their migration from their communities due to inadequate pastures to other communities and this has led to the trespass of these pastoralists to the farmlands of local agriculturalists and destruction of their crops thereby leading to conflict. This study therefore analyses the causes, evolution, dynamics and solutions to the conflicts generat...