Sentence examples for herding practices from inspiring English sources

We particularly interviewed the household heads on different aspects of livestock management: types of livestock breeds owned, types of livestock herding practices, reasons for herding or not herding, quantity and breed of livestock lost to wild predators in the past three years 2012 to 20144), and whether the livestock were herded or not herded when lost to predators.

The study aims to explore how modern herding practices make use of marginal land and how herding is located in its wider economic, political and social context.

He developed techniques now common in zooarchaeology to tease out details of Neolithic herding practices in England; he suggested what has now been confirmed by biomolecular techniques, that these farmers had learned to milk cattle as well as raise them for meat.

We interviewed farmers using a semi-structured questionnaire to determine their livestock herding practices and losses.

This knowledge was acquired through extensive observation of the local environment and continuous herding practices.

Privatization of livestock, reduced government support, and immediate livelihood needs have affected traditional herding practices and human-environment dynamics.

This was determined from herding practice and observation in the field.

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).

The relatively large number of herbaceous and woody browse forage species observed in the sub-region can be explained by the mobile livestock herding practiced by the Karamoja cluster (e.g. Karamojong, Uganda; Toposa, South Sudan; Turkana, Kenya; and Nyangatom, Ethiopia).

comm).. Despite the acknowledgement of persistent livestock losses to wild predators, there has been very little information about how livestock herding practice is related to livestock depredation by wild predators.

Although this might apply for industrialised countries, in our study small ruminants had daily close and intensive contact with cattle in communal herding practice on often overstocked pasture due to the scarcity of grazing land.