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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.
Editor’s Note: Why is the Pastures-Pastoralism Nexus Critical?
Hasrat Arjjumend
Executive Chief Editor
Email: harjjumend@gmail.com | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4419-2791
Pastures & Pastoralism, 01, V. Doi: https://doi.org/10.33002/pp0100
Issues of Declining Livestock Breeds: Revisiting Domestic Animal Diversity in Pastoral Systems
Saverio Krätli
Independent Researcher & Consultant, Editor of Nomadic Peoples, Associate Research Fellow at the German Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture, and Transdisciplinary and Social-ecological Landuse Research (DITSL), Germany.
Email: saverio.kratli@gmail.com | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0781-0327
Pastures & Pastoralism, 01, 1-14. Doi: https://doi.org/10.33002/pp0101
Livelihood Transformation among the Borana Pastoralists of Dhas District, Southern Ethiopia
Dejene Alemayehu*1, Yetebarek Hizekeal2, Tesfatsion Petros3, Hasrat Arjjumend4
1Institute of Indigenous Studies, Dilla University, Dilla, Ethiopia.
Email: dejenea987@gmail.com | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6392-5022
2Institute of Indigenous Studies, Dilla University, Dilla, Ethiopia.
Email: yetebarek-h.zekareas@connect.polyu.hk | ORCID: 0000-0003-3480-7235
3Institute of Indigenous Studies, Dilla University, Dilla, Ethiopia.
Email: petrostesfatsion@gmail.com | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5798-3886
4The Grassroots Institute, 548 Jean Talon Ouest, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Email: ceo@grassrootsinstitute.ca | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4419-2791
*Corresponding author
Pastures & Pastoralism, 01, 15-29. Doi: https://doi.org/10.33002/pp0102
Kanna Kumar Siripurapu*1, Sushma Iyengar2
1South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies, Plot No. 164, Road No. 6, Vayupuri, Sainikpuri, Secunderabad - 500094, Telangana, India.
Email: kanna.siripurapu@gmail.com | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1244-4373
2Sahjeevan, Hospital Rd., Jalaram Society, Vijay Nagar, Bhuj - 370001, Gujarat, India.
Email: sushmasiyengar@gmail.com | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-0196-6328
*Corresponding author
Pastures & Pastoralism, 01, 30-46. Doi: https://doi.org/10.33002/pp0103
Fernando Diego Guzmán*1, Juan Pablo Alberghini2
1Area of Research and Technological Development for Family Farming, CR Mendoza – San Juan, National Institute of Agricultural Technology of Argentina, Argentina.
Email: guzman.fernando@inta.gob.ar | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-8492
2Area of Research and Technological Development for Family Farming, CR Mendoza – San Juan, National Institute of Agricultural Technology of Argentina, Argentina.
Email: alberghini.juan@inta.gob.ar | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1075-6528
*Corresponding author
Pastures & Pastoralism, 01, 47-63. Doi: https://doi.org/10.33002/pp0104
Kanna Kumar Siripurapu
South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies, Plot No. 164, Road No. 6, Vayupuri, Sainikpuri, Secunderabad - 500094, Telangana, India.
Email: kanna.siripurapu@gmail.com | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1244-4373
Pastures & Pastoralism, 01, 64-92. Doi: https://doi.org/10.33002/pp0105
Camel Systems and Pastoralists’ Lifestyle in Semi-Deserts and Mountains: Constraints and Challenges
Ayman Balla Mustafa*1, Asim Faraz2
1Therapeutic Nutrition Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, Misurata University, P.O. Box 2478, Misurata, Libya.
Email: a.yassien@nurs.misurata.edu.ly | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0606-784X
2Department of Livestock and Poultry Production, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan.
Email: drasimfaraz@bzu.edu.pk | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-1397
*Corresponding author
Pastures & Pastoralism, 01, 93-113. Doi: https://doi.org/10.33002/pp0106
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