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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.
Armara Macimilliam Galwab
Department of Culture, Gender and Social Services, County Government of Marsabit, P.O. Box 184- 60500, Marsabit, Kenya. Email: agalwab@gmail.com | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9476-7127
Pastures & Pastoralism, 04, 1-42. Doi: https://doi.org/10.33002/pp0401
Megegn Mada Mano
Gambella University, Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, P. Box 126, Gambella, Ethiopia.
Email: megegnmada@gmail.com | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9016-7221
Pastures & Pastoralism, 04, 43-63. Doi: https://doi.org/10.33002/pp0402
Adaptive Mobility and Mountain Livelihoods: Transhumance Among the Gaddis of the Western Himalayas
Shivendra Srivastava
Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
Email: shivupsidc@gmail.com | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5915-0817
Pastures & Pastoralism, 04, 64-78. Doi: https://doi.org/10.33002/pp0403
Gelgelo Wako Duba*1, Tsedu Tesfaye Hailu2
1Livelihood Practitioner, Yabello, Ethiopia. Email: galgewako61@gmail.com
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7703-6189
2College of Pastoral Studies and Dry Land Agriculture, Borana University, Ethiopia.
Email: tsedu.tesfaye@bru.edu.et, tsedu.tesfaye@bru.edu.et | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-5463-0149
*Corresponding author
Pastures & Pastoralism, 04, 79-100. Doi: https://doi.org/10.33002/pp0404
Joost Nelen
Freelance Adviser and Researcher, Drylands Management, Groupe ODYSSEE, Bamako, Mali.
Email: jnelen-wt@outlook.com | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8367-5288
Pastures & Pastoralism, 04, 101-126. Doi: https://doi.org/10.33002/pp0405
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