Pastoralism in Africa: A land-based livelihood practice analogous to swimming against the tide
| dc.contributor.author | Byakagaba, Patrick | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-12-11T16:21:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-12-11T16:21:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Africa has been written about from the time of “Explorers,” missionaries, and anthropologists, with several perspectives, narratives and discourses emerging which are often used to characterise and generalise about the continent. Many of these are construed as stereotypes especially among African scholars because of the lack of local context. The existence of pastoralism in nearly all the 54 countries in Africa at some phase of their existence, is arguably the most “correct” about Africa. Pastoralism is a land-based livelihood strategy that involves keeping livestock through opportunistic utilisation of existing grazing and browsing resources in natural landscapes called rangelands through cyclic movement of herds on communally owned land.1 This practice is informed by seasonality of grazing and browsing resources that characterise the areas occupied by pastoralists. The movement of herds is a response to social, political and environmental changes.2 It is usually regular and seasonal, based on range condition and water, and often determined by climatic conditions.3 Pastoralists can be nomadic, seminomadic or transhumant.4 Transhumance involves seasonal predictable movement of an entire herd between two relatively distant and ecologically distinct rangeland landscapes that thrive following specific climatic cycles.5 Nomadism involves continuous, short-range movements while semi-nomadism involves occasional and relatively unpredictable or opportunistic movements of herds and household members in search for fresh forage for their livestock.6 The movement of herds and people in pastoralism usually follows well-established, traditional routes. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Byakagaba, P. (2020). Pastoralism in Africa: A land-based livelihood practice analogous to swimming against the tide. South Central Review, 37(2), 71-78. https://doi.org/10.1353/scr.2020.0016 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1353/scr.2020.0016 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://nru.uncst.go.ug/handle/123456789/6163 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | South Central Review | en_US |
| dc.subject | Pastoralism | en_US |
| dc.subject | Africa | en_US |
| dc.subject | Land-based livelihood | en_US |
| dc.title | Pastoralism in Africa: A land-based livelihood practice analogous to swimming against the tide | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |