Using participatory epidemiology to investigate women's knowledge on the seasonality and causes of acute malnutrition in Karamoja, Uganda [0.03%]
参与式流行病学在调查乌干达卡拉莫贾地区妇女对急性营养不良季节性和原因的认识中的应用
Andy Catley,Raphael Lotira Arasio,Charles Hopkins
Andy Catley
The Karamoja region of northeast Uganda had been characterized by high levels of acute malnutrition (AM) for decades, despite substantial aid investment in nutrition programmes. Participatory epidemiology (PE) was used to understand the sea...
Weaving a vicuña shawl [0.03%]
编织羊驼围巾
Bibiana Vilá,Yanina Arzamendia
Bibiana Vilá
Vicuñas (Vicugna vicugna) were at risk of extinction due to indiscriminate hunting for their fibre in the mid-twentieth century. The conservation of the species included numerous international and regional legal mechanisms, as well as the ...
The making of pastoralisms: An account of the Gaddis and Van Gujjars in the Indian Himalaya [0.03%]
游牧社会的建构——喜马拉雅山区加迪人和凡·古吉拉人的案例研究
Raghav Srivastava
Raghav Srivastava
The pastoral communities of the western and central Himalayas have, for centuries, presented the modern Indian state with a problem of governance (as it has often been projected). Their existence, largely outside the domains of fixed proper...
Doyo Kena
Doyo Kena
Pastoralism has been the most productive livelihood option in the dryland of the Horn of Africa although recently its sustainability is becoming challenging. Camel is a livestock species uniquely adapted to the arid and semi-arid areas of t...
African smallholder farmers and the treatment of livestock diseases using ethnoveterinary medicine: A commentary [0.03%]
非洲小规模农户的家畜疾病治疗方法及民族兽医药疗法：述评
Ifeoma Chinyelu Nwafor,Christopher Ugochukwu Nwafor
Ifeoma Chinyelu Nwafor
Often touted as an ancient and sustainable practice among indigenous livestock farmers in developing countries, the use of ethno-veterinary medicine is examined within the context of its efficacy. While there are undoubtedly positive implic...
Gendered asymmetry of access to knowledge for brucellosis control among pastoral communities in north-west Côte d'Ivoire [0.03%]
性别偏见对科特迪瓦西北部牧区布鲁氏菌病防控知识获取的影响
Stephane A Y Babo,Gilbert Fokou,Richard B Yapi et al.
Stephane A Y Babo et al.
Brucellosis is an infectious zoonotic disease considered as a threat to public health and pastoralist livelihoods. Symptoms of the disease can lead to gender-specific ailments such as abortions in women and orchitis in men. Pastoralists and...
The impacts of COVID-19 on cattle traders and their response in agro-pastoral and pastoral regions in Uganda: A case of Karamoja and Teso cattle traders [0.03%]
新冠肺炎疫情对乌干达农牧区和纯牧区牛贸易商的影响及他们的应对措施——卡拉莫贾和Tesoland地区牛贸易商案例分析
John Ilukor,Akello Joyce,Simon Peter Okiror
John Ilukor
The study assessed the economic impact of COVID-19 on cattle traders in the Karamoja and Teso pastoral and agro-pastoral areas in Uganda and their response after the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. The results reveal that cattle traders were neg...
Andy Catley,Elizabeth Stites,Mesfin Ayele et al.
Andy Catley et al.
Community engagement in pastoralist areas: Lessons from the public dialogue process for a new refugee settlement in Turkana, Kenya [0.03%]
牧区的社区参与：肯尼亚Turkana地区新建避难安置点公共对话过程中的经验教训
Cory Rodgers
Cory Rodgers
Large-scale development interventions have long failed to accommodate the needs and preferences of pastoralists or the systems of resource governance and land tenure upon which they rely. However, advocates of rights-based approaches to dev...
Effects of development interventions on pastoral livelihoods in Turkana County, Kenya [0.03%]
开发干预对肯尼亚图尔卡纳县牧民生计的影响
Gregory Akall
Gregory Akall
Turkana County has a long history of drought and development interventions and remains one of the poorest counties in Kenya. In Turkana, livelihoods are increasingly under threat because of climate change, conflict, and the changing land us...