Sentence examples for sedentary land from inspiring English sources
The resource maps showed significant changes (p < 0.001) in the range resources in the sedentary land use site.
The study area was stratified into nomadic, semi-nomadic and sedentary land use sites, based on the dominant land uses pre-determined by Campbell et al. (2003).
The Eselenkei, Olgulului and Kimana group ranches were purposively selected to represent the nomadic, semi-nomadic and sedentary land use types, respectively.
Over the last 40 years, the grazing land declined to a half by the post-2009 drought period in the sedentary land use site.
Livestock routes in the pre-park and post-park periods were lost in the post-settlement and post-2009 drought periods as shown in Figure 7. Figure 6 Pastoral resource change maps for the sedentary land use site Figure 7 Land use and land cover changes in the sedentary land use site.
Land subdivision in the semi-nomadic and sedentary land sites has reportedly reduced grazing areas and herd mobility, both of which undermine the effectiveness of mobile pastoral systems (Western et al. 2009a, 2009b; Groom and Western 2013).
The livestock declines were more significant in the sedentary land-use site than in both semi-nomadic and nomadic areas under study.
The study compared individual household herd sizes in three land-use sites which included sedentary land-use site where land had been subdivided, semi nomadic (partial subdivision) and nomadic (no subdivision).
One hundred and twenty respondents from nomadic, 131 from semi-nomadic, and 83 from the sedentary land-use site were randomly selected for individual interviews in the third stage, making a total of 334 respondents.
Majority of respondents in both nomadic (64%) and semi nomadic (63%) land-use sites noted presence of a range management system in their area and only 46% in the sedentary land-use area.
Arable farming has largely been an adjunct of the pastoral system, with shifting dry-land cultivation rarely entailing sedentary farming.
