The first video envisions a bleak future of lost nomadic livelihoods and an expansion of the tent cities in Ulan Bator, swelled by herders who could not keep their herds.
Nomadic livelihoods are based on livestock and their products, which can be consumed or sold.
At least three different major contemporary trends can be identified as involving piebald camels: (1) their decline due to the abandonment of nomadic livelihoods (due to droughts, wars, destocking, etc).
The plan aims 'to strengthen agricultural development activities in pastoral areas to raise the standard of living, strengthen foreign exchange earnings, and improve nomadic livelihoods step by step' (National Five Year Development Plan 2000).
The Sámi people speak multiple endangered languages and many families still practise semi-nomadic livelihoods – most prominently reindeer herding – along with a wide variety of urban professions.
On this basis, and seeking to create an enabling environment in which Tibetan nomadic pastoral livelihoods may be maintained while simultaneously improving wildlife conservation outcomes, a co-management framework was proposed to the Sanjiangyuan National Nature Reserve in 2005 (Foggin 2005a), an approach that has since been piloted and developed in the Suojia area up to the present.
Pastoralism, as a non-nomadic transhumant subsistence livelihood with herds of goats, sheep, cows and camels, remains a sociocultural pillar of the rural sector but of diminishing economic importance.
In Turkana County, the community derives its livelihood from nomadic pastoralism.
Both districts are inhabited by Karamajong people whose main sources of livelihood are nomadic pastoralism and subsistence crop farming.
The local inhabitants are mainly Maasai who are transitioning from nomadic to sedentary and agropastoral livelihood systems.
