Within Nigeria and Ghana, pastoralists face increasing adversity from climate change marginalisation due to a complex combination of factors, further amplified by highly sensitive increasingly violent conflicts with farmers. While exacerbates the vulnerability pastoralists, this remains largely unaccounted for in current Nigerian Ghanaian pastoral livestock policy. Employing thematic analytical...

Herd dynamics of Boran Pastoralists Contemporary policy debates are rife with discussions of “poverty traps” which describe structural features of the state of poverty that cause it to persist. Different factors may give rise to different types of poverty traps: there may be groups within a population for whom there exists a unique equilibrium associated with persistent poverty and others who f...

 Degradation of grassland and the environment restricting access to grazing resources increased pastoral vulnerability to drought and loss of livestock assets which pose threat to pastoral based livelihoods. In respond to these threats many pastoral communities diversify their livelihood to agro-pastoralism. This shift led to increased sedentarization of the pastoralists with many growing crops...

The camel is a comparatively hardy animal and is less susceptible to many of the diseases that affect other livestock species in the same areas. Despite that, the camel may contract many other diseases, some of which are still unknown. Pastoralists have for centuries herded camels in the arid and semi-arid areas of Kenya, and elsewhere in the Horn of Africa, and they have encountered and named ...

Pastoralists in sub-Saharan Africa are particularly vulnerable to changing climatic conditions and heavily affected by an increasing frequency of severe droughts. To increase drought resilience, livestock index insurance constitutes a promising tool that is aligned mitigate covariate risks. Uptake rates for these products are, however, relatively low. This article uses choice-experimental data ...

In the drylands of Africa, pastoralists have been facing new challenges, including those related to environmental shocks and stresses. In northern Kenya, under conditions of reduced rainfall and more frequent droughts, one response has been for pastoralists to focus increasingly on camel herding. Camels have started to be kept at higher altitudes and by people who rarely kept camels before. The...

Vaccination services for people and livestock often fail to achieve sufficient coverages in Africa's remote rural settings because of financial, logistic, and service delivery constraints. In Chad from 2000 through 2005, we demonstrated the feasibility of combining vaccination programs for nomadic pastoralists and their livestock. Sharing of transport logistics and equipment between physicians ...

Cooperation evolves on social networks and is shaped, in part, by norms: beliefs and expectations about the behaviour of others or of oneself. Networks of cooperative social partners and associated norms are vital for pastoralists, such as Saami reindeer herders in northern Norway. However, little is known quantitatively about how norms structure pastoralists' social networks or shape cooperati...

In West Africa, new management practices such as conservation agriculture with crop residue mulching can improve yields for individual farmers. However, in a context of complex social interactions between farmers, the introduction also lead to conflicts private interests and communal use resources, example free grazing residues. The objective this paper was assess ex-ante impacts practice on pr...