Though to manyurbanites livestock are as distant a part of reality as country music, without them, humans would never havebeen able to form cities at all.
On market days, people walk from distant villages some even cross Taliban lines to buy livestock (donkeys, camels, cattle, and horses) and then they herd the animals back home.
The miscellaneous finance ($480,000) and livestock ($376,000) industries were a distant second and third.
On market days, people walk from distant villages — some even cross Taliban lines — to buy livestock (donkeys, camels, cattle, and horses) and then they herd the animals back home.
Kgalagadi South pastoral households experienced serious shortage of drinking water for their livestock, followed by inadequate grazing land and limited access to distant markets.
Kgalagadi South pastoral households cited shortage of drinking water for livestock in addition to stock theft, limited grazing areas and limited access to distant markets.
Kgalagadi South pastoral households experienced problems of drought and shortage of drinking water for livestock (38% each), followed by stock theft, limited grazing land, limited access to distant markets (19% each) and lack of fenced grazing areas (13%).
Besides its inherent robust growth, the viable P. juliflora seeds surviving in livestock and warthogs' droppings serve as a vehicle for the plant to reach distant areas to have unchecked expansion throughout the region (Hailu et al. 2004).
These data support the hypothesis that cattle establish least-effort routes between distant points in rugged terrain and suggest that GIS software may be useful in designing systems of livestock trails in extensive settings.
