Exempel på herder

• Economic specialization among herders, farmers and hunter-gatherers led to different ethnic economies within inclusive cultural practices and institutions.

• Though these changes affected rural areas less dramatically, farmers and herders also sought alternate sources of capital, security and distribution.

• Increasing colonial presence disrupted the seasonal mobility of indigenous hunters and herders.

• In total 39 per cent of all herders have undertaken at least one landimproving investment.

• Older herders are expected to be less likely to migrate than their younger counterparts.

• Our study tests this and uses the results to draw policy conclusions for improving the welfare of herders.

• The inability to resolve herder-farmer conflicts has resulted in frequent mass movement of cattle across the borders.

• Such a policy may adversely affect herders with large herds and should therefore to be considered in the light of its benefits and costs.

• Lack of water is expected to be one of the major factors forcing the herder to move.

• Second, such pressure forces the herders to move out in search of more pasture and water.

• Those who continue to remain faithful in repayment are considered trustworthy and are appointed herders.

• From the regression results, we obtain the predicted probability that the herder migrates with livestock.

• Cooperation between different neighborhoods took the form of granting grazing access to herders who were temporarily passing through the area.

• All education dummies have positive and significant coefficients, indicating that more educated herders report higher productivity than their less educated counterparts.

• Furthermore, about 26 per cent of all herders own no cattle at all, but have small stock (sheep and goats).