In such a situation, the role of the village heads (goba) as the primary decision maker of timing and movement patterns of the pastoralists is also becoming insignificant as the pastoralists become sedentary and families move out.
Their lives have become sedentary, with more hours spent in front of a television or computer than at play or doing physically exerting work.
While these skills may not seem as important to many as are literacy and numeracy skills, lack of them may well result in sedentary children who eventually become sedentary adults -- as will failure to develop mature patterns for basic motor skills.
Due to the lack of infrastructure within each district, elderly residents seldom participate in regular physical activity and therefore become sedentary.
Formerly nomadic pastoralists, they've become sedentary after losing most of their livestock amidst prolonged drought here in north-western Kenya.
It's only recently that we've become sedentary, and our bodies haven't caught up.
Many sedentary Fulani, who frequently have become sedentary as a result of the depletion of their herds, also own cattle, but they rely principally on cultivation.
Squires (2010) states that many land-use strategies and methods are no longer suitable in the face of economic and political changes, due to population growth and the trend for nomadic pastoralists to become sedentary.
Once going into the differentiating vascular tissues, juveniles become sedentary and initiate nourishing feeding site originated from few parenchyma cells.
Or have you become sedentary and isolated?
