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Sodiya, C. I. "Challenges associated with livestock extension practice in agropastoral Fulani settlement areas of Ogun State, Nigeria." Nigerian Journal of Animal Production 39, no. 1 (January 16, 2021): 228–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.51791/njap.v39i1.2280.

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The study assessed the challenges associated with sustainable provision of livestock extension service in selected agropastoral fulani settlements in the state. The data for the study were collected with the aid of structured questionnaire, and analysed with descriptive statistics, Chi Square and Pearson Product Moment Correlation coefficient. The result from the study revealed that the challenges of livestock extension practice in agropastoral settlements are; lack of incentives to work in agropastoral areas and poor road networks perceived by (61.4%) and (54.47%) of the extension service providers respectively. The transhumance lifestyle of some of the households was perceived by (50.95%) of the extension service providers as a major challenge to livestock extension service provision in these areas. Pearson Product Moment Correlation analysis showed that, the challenges of livestock extension service were significantly related to the working experience of the extension staff (p< 0.05). Chi square analysis result also shows a significant relationship between the challenges of livestock extension practice in agropastoral settlements and the area of specialisation and language competency of the extension staff. It was therefore concluded that, the traditional organizational structure of extension services may be inappropriate for working in pastoral areas. The study recommended that, to reduce these challenges, extension staff from pastoral backgrounds, which are based in pastoral communities, could be recruited and trained for specialised livestock extension services to the agropastoral settlements.

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Verweijen, Judith, and Justine Brabant. "Cows and guns. Cattle-related conflict and armed violence in Fizi and Itombwe, eastern DR Congo." Journal of Modern African Studies 55, no. 1 (February 2, 2017): 1–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x16000823.

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ABSTRACTThis paper analyses the role of cattle in the entwined dynamics of conflict and violence in the Fizi and Itombwe region of South Kivu province, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. On the one hand, agropastoral conflict intensifies armed mobilisation, allowing armed groups to draw upon particular conflict narratives that generate popular and elite support. It also creates incentives for armed actors to engage in cattle-looting, or the defence against it, for both symbolic and material reasons. On the other hand, the presence of armed forces and the use of violence profoundly shape agropastoral conflicts. Importantly, they change the perceived stakes of these conflicts, and hamper their resolution. By showing that the relations between cattle-related conflict and armed activity are indirect, complex and mutual, the paper refines both theories on agropastoral conflict and those highlighting the role of local conflicts in fuelling violence in the eastern Congo.

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Plekhov, Daniel, Thomas P. Leppard, and John F. Cherry. "Island Colonization and Environmental Sustainability in the Postglacial Mediterranean." Sustainability 13, no. 6 (March 18, 2021): 3383. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13063383.

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Island environments present challenges to human colonization, but we have a poor understanding of how environmental difference drives heterogeneous patterns of insular settlement. In this paper, we assess which environmental and geographic variables positively or negatively affect the long-term sustainability of human settlement on islands. Using the postglacial Mediterranean basin as a case study, we assess the impact of area, isolation index, species richness, and net primary productivity (NPP) on patterns of island occupation for both hunter-gatherer and agropastoral populations. We find that models involving area most effectively accounts for sustainability in hunter-gatherer island settlement. The agropastoral data are noisier, perhaps due to culturally specific factors responsible for the distribution of the data; nonetheless, we show that area and NPP exert profound influence over sustainability of agropastoral island settlement. We conclude by suggesting that this relates to the capacity of these variables to impact demographic robusticity directly.

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Upadhyay, Prakash. "High mountain community in a changing climate: a study of agropastoral adaptation in mustang district, Nepal." Papers on Anthropology 29, no. 2 (December 31, 2020): 58–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/poa.2020.29.2.05.

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This paper explores the changing climate, its impact, and the diversified practices of agropastoral adaption by a mountain community of Nepal. The findings reveal that there is an unswerving link between the changes in climate and their impact on the community and its adaptation options. The vulnerability and risk induced by the climate change has threatened the agropastoral subsistence, the sociocultural and economic structure, and the food sovereignty of the Loba community of Mustang district of Nepal and made them experience unanticipated complications in livelihood. In a changing climate, the community has attuned and restructured its adaptive strategy with diversified practices of collective labour in a traditional agropastoral system of landholding, mystical connectivity and seasonal relocation as an adaptive response ensuring the shared sustenance of the com munity. The challenge of climate change began long ago; it will persevere and be long- lasting. Hence, this paper argues for the need for a prudent adoption of measures to maintain an environmentally suitable agropastoral system of liveli hood well-being. Beyond enhancing community capacity and climate resilience, it is necessary to streamline and readjust indigenous sociocultural institutions by expanding their adaptive capacity, while recognizing the cultural dimensions grounded in systems of meanings and relationships and the way people and their culture experience and respond to exceptional climatic changes.

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Gragson, Ted L., Michael R. Coughlan, and David S. Leigh. "Contingency and Agency in the Mountain Landscapes of the Western Pyrenees: A Place-Based Approach to the Long Anthropocene." Sustainability 12, no. 9 (May 9, 2020): 3882. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12093882.

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Regional- and biome-scale paleoecological analyses and archaeological syntheses in the mountain landscapes of the western Pyrenees suggest that the Long Anthropocene began with agropastoral land use at the onset of the Neolithic. Historical and geographic analyses emphasize the marginality of the western Pyrenees and the role of enforced social norms exacted by intense solidarities of kin and neighbors in agropastoral production. Both are satisfying and simple narratives, yet neither offers a realistic framework for understanding complex processes or the contingency and behavioral variability of human agents in transforming a landscape. The Long Anthropocene in the western Pyrenees was a spatially and temporally heterogeneous and asynchronous process, and the evidence frequently departs from conventional narratives about human landscape degradation in this agropastoral situation. A complementary place-based strategy that draws on geoarchaeological, biophysical, and socio-ecological factors is used to examine human causality and environmental resilience and demonstrate their relationship with the sustainability of mountain landscapes of the western Pyrenees over medium to long time intervals.

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Owuor, George, Beatrice Knerr, Justus Ochieng, Tom Wambua, and Chris Magero. "Community tourism and its role among agropastoralists in Laikipia County, Kenya." Tourism Economics 23, no. 1 (September 21, 2016): 229–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.5367/te.2015.0508.

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The authors present survey findings from agropastoral households living near tourist attraction sites and undertake agropastoral activities, conservation, and community tourism enterprises in Laikipia, Kenya. Laikipia is a major wildlife migration route, popular with private conservancies and ranches, attracting large numbers of tourists. The authors explore the key determinants of participation in community tourism and find that communication and road infrastructure, membership of community groups, and security aspects influence household participation in community tourism. Policies aiming to improve infrastructure and security and to encourage the formation of investment groups would enhance participation in community tourism activities and raise household incomes.

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Vondal, Patricia J. "Plants, Animals, and People: Agropastoral Systems Research." Culture & Agriculture 13, no. 45-46 (January 1993): 38–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/cuag.1993.13.45-46.38.

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Vondal, Patricia J. "Plants, Animals, and People: Agropastoral Systems Research." Culture Agriculture -, no. 45-46 (December 1993): 38–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/cag.1993.-.45-46.38.

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Thornton, P. K. "Plants, animals, and people: Agropastoral systems research." Agricultural Systems 44, no. 3 (January 1994): 356–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0308-521x(94)90228-8.

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Scarnecchia, David L., and E. D. Ungar. "Management of Agropastoral Systems in a Semiarid Region." Journal of Range Management 45, no. 6 (November 1992): 597. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4002581.

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Apostolou, Menelaos. "Sexual selection under parental choice in agropastoral societies." Evolution and Human Behavior 31, no. 1 (January 2010): 39–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2009.06.010.

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Baumgärtner, Johann, Getachew Tikubet, and Gianni Gilioli. "Towards Adaptive Governance of Common-Pool Mountainous Agropastoral Systems." Sustainability 2, no. 6 (May 26, 2010): 1448–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su2061448.

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Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique. "Optimizing offspring: the quantity–quality tradeoff in agropastoral Kipsigis." Evolution and Human Behavior 21, no. 6 (November 2000): 391–410. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1090-5138(00)00054-4.

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Jacquard, Pierre. "Management of agropastoral systems in a semi-arid region." Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 36, no. 3-4 (August 1991): 241–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0167-8809(91)90021-o.

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Milner-Gulland, E. J., Ruth Mace, and Ian Scoones. "A model of household decisions in dryland agropastoral systems." Agricultural Systems 51, no. 4 (August 1996): 407–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0308-521x(95)00057-c.

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Patil, Crystal L. "Appetite Sensations in Pregnancy among Agropastoral Women in Rural Tanzania." Ecology of Food and Nutrition 51, no. 5 (September 2012): 431–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03670244.2012.696012.

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Pierre, Caroline, Laurent Kergoat, Pierre Hiernaux, Christian Baron, Gilles Bergametti, Jean-Louis Rajot, Amadou Abdourhamane Toure, Gregory S. Okin, and Beatrice Marticorena. "Impact of Agropastoral Management on Wind Erosion in Sahelian Croplands." Land Degradation & Development 29, no. 3 (September 29, 2017): 800–811. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ldr.2783.

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Unganai, Leonard. "Adaptation to climate change among agropastoral systems: Case for Zimbabwe." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 6, no. 41 (February 1, 2009): 412045. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1307/6/41/412045.

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Karsten, Jordan K., Sarah E. Heins, Gwyn D. Madden, and Mykhailo P. Sokhatskyi. "The Biological Implications of the Transition to Agriculture in Ukraine: A Study of Enamel Hypoplasias." Dental Anthropology Journal 27, no. 1-2 (September 1, 2018): 16–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.26575/daj.v27i1-2.40.

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The Tripolye were the first archaeo-logical culture in Ukraine to cultivate domesticat-ed cereals, practice animal husbandry, and establish large settlements with high population densities. This cultural adaptation was much different than that of mobile hunter-fisher-gatherers of the Ukrainian Mesolithic/Neolithic, and likely resulted in different outcomes for human health. This study compares the rates of enamel hypoplasias in a Tripolye skeletal population with that of Mesolithic/Neolithic hunter-fisher-gatherers. A recently excavated sample of dentitions representing a minimum of 35 individuals from Verteba Cave was examined macroscopically for hypoplasias and was compared statistically to published rates for hunter-fisher-gatherers. The Tripolye from Verteba Cave were found to have at least one enamel hypoplasia on 18.18% of teeth, while the hunter-fisher-gatherers have hypoplastic lesions on 1.88% of teeth. When examined at the individual level, 48.57% of the Tripolye were found to have at least one hypoplasia, as compared to 12.77% of the hunter-fisher-gatherer individuals. The results indicate that the agropastoral Tripolye experienced significantly more systemic stress than the hunter-fisher-gatherers. The higher stress likely relates to dietary and behavioral variables associated with the Tripolye’s agropastoral economy, including heavy reliance on cereals as weaning foods and sanitary problems linked to sedentism.

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Barbaro, Luc, Emmanuel Corcket, Thierry Dutoit, and Jean-Paul Peltier. "Réponses fonctionnelles des communautés de pelouses calcicoles aux facteurs agro-écologiques dans les Préalpes françaises." Canadian Journal of Botany 78, no. 8 (August 1, 2000): 1010–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/b00-071.

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The identification of functional groups in calcareous grasslands of southern Vercors (Rhône-Alpes, France) is investigated through relationships between biological traits of the species and agro-ecological factors. Community patterns are determined by (i) the level of edaphic stress (oligotrophy and xericity) and (ii) the regime and the intensity of agropastoral management (grazing and mechanical cutting). In such grasslands submitted to regular disturbance, life traits related to dispersal and regeneration processes have greater importance for the differentiation of species than morphological traits, and Grime's adaptative strategies are the best predictors of species ordination on agro-ecological gradients (e.g., stress and disturbance). A classification of species in functional groups based on the same life traits and similar responses to disturbances is proposed, and its role in defining adequate conservation management of calcareous grassland by low-intensity livestock farming is discussed. The functional role of grazing is emphasized by the relationship between species dominance or rarity and their levels of consumption and dispersion by sheeps. In calcareous grassland communities, dominant species are the most palatable and the most dispersed by sheeps, while rarer species depend on other dispersal modes, such as seed rain or mowing machinery.Key words: life traits, functional groups, agropastoral practices, conservation management, RLQ analysis.

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Fikir, Dagm, Wubalem Tadesse, and Abdella Gure. "Economic Contribution to Local Livelihoods and Households Dependency on Dry Land Forest Products in Hammer District, Southeastern Ethiopia." International Journal of Forestry Research 2016 (2016): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5474680.

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The study was conducted in Hammer district, Southern Ethiopia, to provide empirical evidence on economic contribution to local livelihoods and households dependency on dry forest products. One agropastoral and two pastoral kebeles were purposively selected, and data was collected through household survey, group discussions, market assessments, and field observation. A total of 164 households, selected based on a random sampling procedure, were interviewed using structured questionnaire. The study found that income from forest products contributes 21.4% of the total annual household income. The major dry forest products include honey, fuel wood, gum and resin, and crafts and construction materials, contributing 49%, 39%, 6%, and 6% of the forest income, respectively. Households of the pastoral site earned more forest income and were relatively more dependent on forest products income than those in the agropastoral study site. Significant variation was also found among income groups: households with higher total annual income obtain more forest income than those with lower income, but they are relatively less dependent on forest products than the lower counterpart. Besides, various socioeconomic and contextual factors were found to influence forest income and dependency. The findings of the study provide valuable information up on which important implications for dry land forest development and management strategies can be drawn.

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Valdivia, Corinne, Elizabeth G. Dunn, and Christian Jette. "Diversification as a Risk Management Strategy in an Andean Agropastoral Community." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 78, no. 5 (December 1996): 1329–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1243516.

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Zhumanova, Munavar, Nicole Wrage-Mönnig, and Dietrich Darr. "Farmers' Decision-making and Land Use Changes in Kyrgyz Agropastoral Systems." Mountain Research and Development 36, no. 4 (November 2016): 506–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1659/mrd-journal-d-16-00030.1.

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Shaoliang, Yi, Wu Ning, Luo Peng, Wang Qian, Shi Fusun, Sun Geng, and Ma Jianzhong. "Changes in Livestock Migration Patterns in a Tibetan-style Agropastoral System." Mountain Research and Development 27, no. 2 (May 2007): 138–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1659/mrd.0832.

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Mishra, Charudutt, Herbert H. T. Prins, and Sipke E. Van Wieren. "Diversity, Risk Mediation, and Change in a Trans-Himalayan Agropastoral System." Human Ecology 31, no. 4 (December 2003): 595–609. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/b:huec.0000005515.91576.8f.

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Nyangito, M. M., N. K. R. Musimba, and D. M. Nyariki. "Range Use and Trophic Interactions by Agropastoral Herds in Southeastern Kenya." Journal of Human Ecology 23, no. 2 (February 2008): 115–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09709274.2008.11906062.

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Pastorelli, A. A., L. Campanella, A. Coppa, and P. Stacchini. "Exposure to Cadmium and Lead in an Agropastoral Iron Age Population." International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 26, no. 1 (April 11, 2014): 132–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/oa.2403.

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Groff, David, and Dominique Guillaud. "L'Ombre du mil: Un Systeme Agropastoral Sahelien en Aribinda (Burkina Faso)." International Journal of African Historical Studies 27, no. 3 (1994): 676. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/220788.

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Frank, Roslyn M. "Metrology, Memory and Long-Term Landscape Inhabitation: Evidence for the Septarian Package on the Atlantic Façade." Culture and Cosmos 21, no. 1 and 2 (2017): 249–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.46472/cc.01221.0227.

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All along the Atlantic façade there is evidence that distinctive septarian units of measurement were employed, suggesting a continuity of metrological practice and more particularly the association of the Septarian Package with agropastoral practices. The goal of this paper is to show how this metrological Sprachbund with its geographical diffusion and memory traces can be brought into play to examine cultural conceptualisations and practices that might have been associated with megalithic structures found along the Atlantic façade.

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Filho, Sergei Studart Quintas, Renato De Carvalho Batista, Tiago Fernando Carpi, Raphael Almeida Sousa, Maria Da Salete Gurgel Costa, Francisco José Feijó Paiva, and Crizanto Brito De-Carvalho. "Aves, Tyrannidae, Fluvicola nengeta (Linnaeus, 1766): new record for Distrito Federal and distribution extension." Check List 7, no. 3 (May 1, 2011): 310. http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/7.3.310.

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This article provides the first record of Fluvicola nengeta in Distrito Federal, Central Brazil. The distance between the new record and the nearest point where it was previously recorded is about 180 km. The deforestation associated with the mechanization and expansion of agropastoral system in the Cerrado biome, coupled with the plasticity of the species to occupy various habitats presents the major contributors in the expansion of F. nengeta, contributing to its increasing expansion in the Midwest region of the Brazil.

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Forenbaher, Stašo, and Preston T. Miracle. "The spread of farming in the Eastern Adriatic." Antiquity 79, no. 305 (September 2005): 514–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00114474.

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The authors present a new, two-stage model of the spread of farming along the eastern Adriatic coast based on the first appearance of pottery. The initial stage was a very rapid dispersal, perhaps by ‘leapfrog colonisation’, associated with cave sites in southern Dalmatia. The second stage was a slower agropastoral expansion associated with cave and open-air sites along the northern coast. Migration was a significant factor in the process. The mountainous hinterland formed an agricultural frontier zone, where farming was adopted piecemeal by indigenous groups.

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Knapp, Eli J., and Tanner J. S. Hoffman. "Trading culture for development: assessing perceptions among rural agropastoral peoples in Tanzania." Development in Practice 28, no. 6 (July 25, 2018): 741–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2018.1473339.

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Sam, I. M., Essien C. A., Ekpo, and J. S. "BLOOD PROFILES AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH MILK PRODUCTION TRAITS IN AGROPASTORAL GOATS." International Journal of Agriculture Environment and Bioresearch 04, no. 03 (2019): 16–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.35410/ijaeb.2019.1623.

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Nyangito, M. M., N. KR Musimba, and D. M. Nyariki. "Seasonal energy extraction patterns by agropastoral herds in semiarid south-eastern Kenya." African Journal of Range & Forage Science 26, no. 2 (August 2009): 81–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/ajrfs.2009.26.2.6.849.

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Costa, Renan N., Mirco Solé, and Fausto Nomura. "Agropastoral activities increase fluctuating asymmetry in tadpoles of two neotropical anuran species." Austral Ecology 42, no. 7 (June 22, 2017): 801–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aec.12502.

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Dantas, Mariana, and Germán G. Figueroa. "Archaeometric contributions to agropastoral production research in Aguada society (Ambato Valley, Catamarca)." Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 18 (April 2018): 648–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.05.049.

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Voh, A. A., and E. O. Otchere. "Reproductive performance of Zebu cattle under traditional agropastoral management in northern Nigeria." Animal Reproduction Science 19, no. 3-4 (June 1989): 191–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0378-4320(89)90092-4.

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Bekele, Adugna Eneyew, Liesbeth Dries, Wim Heijman, and Dusan Drabik. "Large scale land investments and food security in agropastoral areas of Ethiopia." Food Security 13, no. 2 (January 25, 2021): 309–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12571-020-01131-x.

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AbstractIn Ethiopia, large scale land investments have been expanding into pastoral regions. However, little is known about the consequences of these investments on the food security of the pastoral community. Using Living Standard Measurement Survey data of the World Bank, we find that, on average, about 32% of the respondents from the (agro-)pastoral regions are food insecure. After controlling for confounders, proximity to large scale land investments is associated with additional food intake of up to 745 kcal per day per adult compared to the households located farther away from a large scale land investment. Proximity to large scale land investment has no significant effect on the coping strategies based food security. For households located in proximity to a large scale land investment, food intake significantly increases with access to roads and markets. Proximity to a large scale land investment has a positive effect on household food consumption not necessarily because of direct benefits from large scale land investments, but due to land and soil quality near the large scale land investments.

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Brisset, Elodie, Jordi Revelles, Isabel Expósito, Joan Bernabeu Aubán, and Francesc Burjachs. "Socio-Ecological Contingencies with Climate Changes over the Prehistory in the Mediterranean Iberia." Quaternary 3, no. 3 (July 7, 2020): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/quat3030019.

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We conducted palynological, sedimentological, and chronological analyses of a coastal sediment sequence to investigate landscape evolution and agropastoral practices in the Nao Cap region (Spain, Western Mediterranean) since the Holocene. The results allowed for a reconstruction of vegetation, fire, and erosion dynamics in the area, implicating the role of fire in vegetation turnover at 5300 (mesophilous forests replaced by sclerophyllous scrubs) and at 3200 calibrated before present (cal. BP) (more xerophytics). Cereal cultivation was apparent from the beginning of the record, during the Mid-Neolithic period. From 5300 to 3800 cal. BP, long-lasting soil erosion was associated with the presence of cereals, indicating intense land-use during the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age periods. The decline of the agriculture signal and vegetal recolonization is likely explained by land abandonment during the Final Bronze Age. Anthropogenic markers reappeared during the Iberian period when more settlements were present. A contingency of human and environmental agencies was found at 5900, 4200, and 2800 cal. BP, coinciding with abrupt climate events, that have manifested locally in reduced spring discharge, an absence of agropastoral evidence, and a marked decline in settlement densities. This case study, covering five millennia and three climate events, highlights how past climate changes have affected human activities, and also shows that people repeatedly reoccupied the coast once the perturbation was gone. The littoral zone remained attractive for prehistoric communities despite the costs of living in an area exposed to climatic hazards, such as droughts.

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Almada, Melina S., Alda González, and José A. Corronca. "Evaluation of the design effects of different agropastoral systems on the diversity and density of spiders." Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research 15, no. 1 (April 20, 2017): e0301. http://dx.doi.org/10.5424/sjar/2017151-9712.

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Sustainable agro-ecological design is challenging when the goal is self-regulation of the system. The objective of this study was to evaluate if the agropastoral design system affects the spider community, as spiders are the main predators in these production systems, and to determine those designs which maximize the diversity and density of spiders. The study was conducted during 2009/2010, at the Experimental Research Station of Agriculture (EEA-INTA) Reconquista (Santa Fe, Argentina) where we considered four different designs: C1 (five agricultural fields), C2 (three agricultural fields and four livestock fields), C3 (six agricultural fields and one livestock field) and C4 (five agricultural fields and one forest area). In each design, the spiders were collected by pitfall traps and suction samples with a G-Vac (garden-vacuum). The designs proposed were considered on the basis of environmental heterogeneity. The C4 treatment had the greatest number of species, followed by C2, C3 and C1 (183, 178, 144 and 142 species, respectively), and C2 presented the greatest abundance of spiders followed by C4, C3 and C1 (n=5708, 4785, 4271 and 3448, respectively). Eight guilds were present in C3 and C4. This study is the first to evaluate the diversity of spiders in agropastoral systems in Argentina. Our results show that designs that include more fields with livestock or equal to those for agriculture, as well as forest areas, increase environmental heterogeneity. Therefore, the presence of a biological controller and dominant predatory group will be possible with sustainable designs that have environmental heterogeneity, contributing to improved pest control in agricultural systems.

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Servidoni, Lucas Emanuel, Joaquim Ernesto Bernardes Ayer, Marx Leandro Naves Silva, Velibor Spalevic, and Ronaldo Luiz Mincato. "Land use capacity and environment services." Revista Brasileira de Geografia Física 9, no. 6 (November 28, 2016): 1712. http://dx.doi.org/10.26848/rbgf.v9.6.p1712-1724.

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The increasing demand for food resulting from demographic growth has required more productive agropastoral practices. Consequently, new areas were selected for agropastoral production in an arbitrary way, disregarding land use capacity. This ends up in acceleration of degradation processes, mainly those related to water erosion. In this context, the system of land use capacity proposes the classification of maximum use allowed for land of a rural property or of a hydrographic sub-basin, in an attempt to make sustainable plans of use and management of natural resources. Concerning current use of land, the system indicates the sites where there are conflicts in use in relation to their use capacity. Thus, it is possible to propose measures to adapt land use to its use capacity. Therefore, in this study, the classes of land use capacity at the hydrographic sub-basin of Córrego Pedra Branca, in Alfenas, in the state of Minas Gerais, were evaluated. For that purpose, the following soil parameters were evaluated: effective depth, water permeability, texture, declivity, erosion class, base saturation, effective and potential cationic exchange capacity, and aluminum saturation. Soil analyses presented values of base saturation and of low capacity of effective and potential cationic exchange, which illustrate the low natural fertility of these soils, as well as aluminum saturation level harmful to most cultures. Thus, land use would be restricted to low impact, permanent crops, silvicultures, associated agrosilvipastoral system with conservationist management techniques, as, for example, direct seeding, soil correction and fertilization, and reforestation of permanent preservation areas

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Sourogou, Roger Masso, and Fabien C. Hountondji. "Retained Water in the Commune of Gogounou in Benin: Inventory, Characterization and Management Mode." Ovidius University Annals of Constanta - Series Civil Engineering 22, no. 1 (December 1, 2020): 115–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ouacsce-2020-0013.

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Abstract The present work was carried out with the aim of knowing the characteristics and the management made of the agropastoral dams of the commune of Gogounou which are of a great utility for the local populations. To do this, twenty (20) dams were chosen according to the strategic interest that they present for the population, that is to say a polling rate of 87% on all the dams of the municipality. An inventory of the dams was made according to quantitative and qualitative indicators. The results showed the existence of (04) groups of dams according to the technical characteristics and some qualitative variables. The parameters that lead to the degradation of these dams are often related to the age and type of dam and the place of installation. Groups (2 and 4) are agropastoral dams (100%) and more than half of the dams are on flood sites. Results have also shown that there are management committees around all the dams in the commune of Gogounou, but which are mostly non-functional at almost 75%. Also, it has been found that the breeders are mostly transhumant and sedentary who use (100%) dams for watering animals. This cohabitation between farmers and pastoralists does not occur without major conflicts, in particular, that of land whose settlement is generally peaceful. In short, the management of the dams in the commune of Gogounou is a real challenge to be met for a better development, both economically and socially to guarantee the prosperity of the actors and prepare them to adapt to the vagaries of the climate future.

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Shigaeva, Jyldyz, Shannon Hagerman, Hisham Zerriffi, Christian Hergarten, Aiganysh Isaeva, Zuura Mamadalieva, and Marc Foggin. "Decentralizing Governance of Agropastoral Systems in Kyrgyzstan: An Assessment of Recent Pasture Reforms." Mountain Research and Development 36, no. 1 (February 2016): 91–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1659/mrd-journal-d-15-00023.1.

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Yi, Shaoliang, Ning Wu, Peng Luo, Qian Wang, Fusun Shi, Qiaoying Zhang, and Jianzhong Ma. "Agricultural heritage in disintegration: Trends of agropastoral transhumance on the southeast Tibetan Plateau." International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology 15, no. 3 (June 2008): 273–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.3843/susdev.15.3:10.

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Heasley, Lynne, and James Delehanty. "The politics of manure: Resource tenure and the agropastoral economy in southwestern Niger." Society & Natural Resources 9, no. 1 (January 1996): 31–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08941929609380950.

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Salazar, J., and I. Kuijt. "Dynamic places, durable structures: Early Formative agropastoral settlements of the southern Andes, Argentina." Antiquity 90, no. 354 (November 21, 2016): 1576–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.213.

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Gartzia, Maite, Federico Fillat, Fernando Pérez-Cabello, and Concepción L. Alados. "Influence of Agropastoral System Components on Mountain Grassland Vulnerability Estimated by Connectivity Loss." PLOS ONE 11, no. 5 (May 12, 2016): e0155193. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0155193.

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Gutierrez, A. P., G. Gilioli, and J. Baumgartner. "Ecosocial consequences and policy implications of disease management in East African agropastoral systems." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106, no. 31 (July 20, 2009): 13136–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0813126106.

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A, Mikail, Karar M, Tidjani A, Brahim B.O., Laleye P, and Mahonte S. "Impact of Intensification of Agropastoral Activities on the Water Quality of Lake Fitri." International Journal of Sciences 4, no. 01 (2018): 66–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.18483/ijsci.1511.

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Kilale, Andrew Martin, Esther Ngadaya, Julius Muhumuza, Gibson Benard Kagaruki, Yakobo Leonard Lema, Bernard James Ngowi, Sayoki Godfrey Mfinanga, and Sven Gudmund Hinderaker. "Who Has Mycobacterial Disease? A Cross Sectional Study in Agropastoral Communities in Tanzania." PLOS ONE 11, no. 5 (May 23, 2016): e0153711. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0153711.

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