Sentence examples for extensive herding from inspiring English sources
Rather than the central-place model, pastoral mobility patterns in Borana can be characterized using restrictive, semi-extensive, or extensive herding models.
Moreover, extensive herding of sheep is a marginal activity in the country, and livestock breeders have the feeling they are marginalized and not a concern of the state.
Intensive herding is usually characterized by continuous tending of the herd, which also makes the herd tamer, while extensive herding is characterized by less contact with the herd.
The current vegetation cover characterized by patches of holm and marcescent oaks and fields reflects an intense human management combining both extensive herding with agrarian activities in order to transform the previous forested landscape into a dehesa-like system.
Traditional livestock management has historically been blamed for the mismanagement of rangelands, but there is a growing recognition of the importance of extensive herding strategies and the local knowledge embedded in these practices.
The studied herding districts share an east-west migratory herding pattern (Skogseid 1997; Sande 2010), and both intensive and a more extensive herding practice are carried out in the studied region (Sande 2010).
Table 6 indicates expected proportions of females and lactating females in extensive herds in Mauritania.
The overall majority (over 90%) of the herds in Sokoto are semi-intensive or extensive herds.
However, outbreaks in dairy herds can be controlled more rapidly than in typically extensive herd types.
The purely extensive herds were not particularly selected in this study because lactating cows are usually resident under the semi-intensive system while other cows are taken out to pastures.
The average population in the overwhelming majority of villages is in double-digit figures, which is partly an effect of the land-extensive herd management system (Figure 3). Figure 3 Pastoral homestead in the central region.
