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Impact Of Development On Traditional Pastoralism In Somalia, Abdulkadir A. Handulle
Impact Of Development On Traditional Pastoralism In Somalia, Abdulkadir A. Handulle
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
The Somali pastoral nomads live in an environmental condition of risk and uncertainty. The scarce and unreliable rainfall is the primary element ·which determines the existence of nomadic pastoralism. The lands devoted to pastoralism in Somalia are those arid and semi-arid areas that could not sustain cropping, so that pastoralism may be considered the only rational utilization of the land resource. Nomads live in an environment where the survival of both animals and plants are constrained by many factors such as droughts. Yet, both nomads and their animals have evolved by learning numerous adaptive strategies to cope with their harsh, …