Editors-in-Chief
- Carol Kerven, Odessa Centre Ltd.
- Roy H Behnke, Odessa Centre Ltd.
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Journal Affiliations
Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice is associated with:
- nbsp;World Initiative for Sustainable Pastoralism IUCN
- nbsp;Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), Climate Change and Drylands
- nbsp;Odessa Centre UK
Articles
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Commentary
Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice 2012, 2:6 (17 May 2012)Sugar for the tea: assistance and the state of pastoralism in the Horn of Africa
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Research
Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice 2012, 2:5 (17 May 2012)Analysis of a goat milk cheese industry in a desert rangeland of Mexico
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Research
Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice 2012, 2:4 (9 May 2012)Livestock, medicinal plants and rangeland viability in Jordan's Badia: through the lens of traditional and local knowledge
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Short report
Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice 2012, 2:3 (9 May 2012)The myth of encroachment
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Research
Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice 2012, 2:2 (3 May 2012)Livestock-based knowledge of rangeland quality assessment and monitoring at landscape level among Borana herders of northern Kenya
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Aims & scope
Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice is an interdisciplinary and peer-reviewed journal on extensive livestock production systems throughout the world. Pastoralists rely on rangelands and livestock for their livelihoods, but exhibit different levels of mobility and market involvement, and operate under a variety of different land tenure regimes. Pastoralism publishes research that influences public policy, to improve the welfare of these people and better conserve the environments in which they live.
The journal investigates pastoralism from a variety of disciplinary perspectives across the biophysical, social and economic sciences. This is not applied research in the traditional sense, but relevant research, sometimes even basic research, with the capacity ultimately to change the way practical people do business. Predicting what kind of research will fulfil this role is virtually impossible. What we can do is keep policy makers, practitioners and pastoralists talking to scientists and researchers and aware of each others' concerns.
Special issue on Wildlife and Pastoralism
The current paradigm is that livestock and wildlife are incompatible. This special issue will focus on debunking that myth, but also in bringing a measure of realism into the debate. There are circumstances where there are and will be conflicts between the two which cannot be resolved; choices have to be made. There may be cases of tradeoffs, where the best is to hope for a managed compromise, and there will also be cases of co-benefits and complementarity. We are currently inviting submissions from a variety of topics.
This special issue will be sponsored, in part, by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Authors who do not otherwise have funding coverage, and wish to submit papers for review in this special issue, are invited to make pre-submission enquiries to the editors Carol Kerven and Maryam Niamir-Fuller.
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"There has been a dearth of scientifically verified and rigorous publications on pastoralism in the last decade, and this new publication will be able to fill a very important gap in our knowledge. Furthermore, with its timely topics, as evidenced by this first edition, the journal has the potential to make considerable impact on sustainable development thinking and policies."
Maryam Niamir-Fuller
Executive Coordinator and Director
Division of Global Environment Facility (GEF) Coordination
United Nations Environment Programme
Kenya
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