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VOLUME 02 (2024) | Pastures & Pastoralism

Gradually, pasturelands are being converted into other land uses or enclosed for exclusive uses under various national laws or policies. Resilience of pastoralist communities to the changing environments – ecological, economic and political – has great potential to protecting and conserving the pastureland landscapes or waterscapes. Such resilience is more talked in context of climate change and its impact on the herder communities surviving in marginal environments. In the view of widespread regional and national policy failures and modernity-catalyzed societal rejection of transhumance and nomadic pastoralism, International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists 2026 declared by the United Nations General Assembly is a grand opportunity for all to revitalize the least-external-input driven systems of livestock raising and mobility across the continents. This international blind peer-review journal, ‘Pastures & Pastoralism’, will contribute to the science, policy and practice across the world by providing a novel platform to seasoned, budding and young scientists, experts and practitioners, including the pastoral community members.

VOLUME 2, (2024)

M – 00385Research Article

Mapping of the Seasonal Migration Routes of Cattle Pastoralists of the Deccan Plateau Region of India Using Ethnographic Geographic Information System Technique

Kanna K. Siripurapu*1, Faisal Moola2, Sravya Sakkuri3, Shivaram Reddy Dareddy4, Sabyasachi Das5

1School of Arts and Design, Woxsen University, Sangareddy District, Hyderabad, India

Email: kanna.siripurapu@gmail.com | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1244-4373

2Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada.

Email: fmoola@uoguelph.ca | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9803-8514

3Watershed Support Services and Activities Network, Hyderabad, India

E-mail: sakkurisravya@gmail.com | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-5105-8240

4School of Arts and Design, Woxsen University, Sangareddy District, Hyderabad, India

Email: shivaram.reddy@woxsen.edu.in | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5326-9914

5Watershed Support Services and Activities Network, Hyderabad, India

Email: sabyasachidasindia@gmail.com | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-9005-8547

*Corresponding author

Pastures & Pastoralism, 02, 101-131. Doi: https://doi.org/10.33002/pp0206

Received: 26 May 2024

Reviewed: 08 July 2024

Revised: 10 July 2024

Accepted: 15 July 2024

Published: 25 July 2024


                                    

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ABSTRACT

Annual seasonal migration is one of the main characteristics of pastoralism. However, large-scale studies focusing on mapping seasonal migration patterns using advanced spatial analysis tools like the geographic information system (GIS), hitherto remain meager in India. The lack of such studies has many implications for holistically understanding pastoralism in India. The few spatial analysis studies conducted in the Himalayan region of India found a lack of amenities and conflict with large-scale state-promoted plantations under climate change-related projects. Similar studies have been absent in the country's Deccan Plateau region, which is home to a significant number of pastoralist communities and livestock populations. In this background, an exploratory study was conducted to map the seasonal migration routes of pastoralist communities in the Deccan Plateau region adopting the Ethnographic Geographic Information System Technique (EGIST). The objective of the present study is to digitally map the seasonal migration routes of the pastoralists and document the issues and challenges (if any), along the seasonal migration routes in the study area. Seasonal migration routes of seven villages from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states were mapped using EGIST and found that pastoralists of the study area practice both short and long-seasonal migration in sync with the monsoon and local cropping season. Pastoralists of Telangana were found to migrate to the neighboring state of Andhra Pradesh (AP) during long-distance migration. However, pastoralists of AP predominantly move within the state. A few major challenges faced by pastoralists during their seasonal migration in the study area includes – labour shortages, disease outbreaks and conflict with the forest department personnel for accessing the traditional grazing lands located inside the Amarabad and Nagarjunsagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserves of Nallamala forest of AP and Telangana states of India.

Keywords

Ethnographic Geographic Information System; Spatial analysis; Seasonal migration; Pastoralism; Deccan plateau; Foot-and-Mouth Disease

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Siripurapu, K. K., Moola, F., Sakkuri, S., Dareddy, S. R., & Das, S. (2024). Mapping of the Seasonal Migration Routes of Cattle Pastoralists of the Deccan Plateau Region of India Using Ethnographic Geographic Information System Technique. Pastures & Pastoralism, 02, 101-131. https://doi.org/10.33002/pp0206

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Siripurapu, K.K., Moola, F., Sakkuri, S., Dareddy, S.R. and Das, S. (2024). Mapping of the Seasonal Migration Routes of Cattle Pastoralists of the Deccan Plateau Region of India Using Ethnographic Geographic Information System Technique. Pastures & Pastoralism, 02: 101-131. Doi: https://doi.org/10.33002/pp0206

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Siripurapu K.K., Moola F., Sakkuri S., Dareddy S.R., Das, S. Mapping of the Seasonal Migration Routes of Cattle Pastoralists of the Deccan Plateau Region of India Using Ethnographic Geographic Information System Technique. Pastures & Pastoralism, 2024, 02, 101-131. https://doi.org/10.33002/pp0206

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