Pastoralism Post

Pastoralism Post
Anthropologists studying pastoralism in non-Western settings, such as Ethiopia, could offer crucial insights concerning rangeland management to ranches in the United States, including Wyoming or Texas. Ethiopia’s pastoral grazing areas cover nearly half of the country and are home to an estimated 10 percent of Ethiopians. Today, there is rapid growth in non-pastoral and pastoral populations within the Ethiopian rangelands. Government policies typically foster the reclamation of the ideal wet grazelands into extractive profitable enterprise as well as subsistence crop framing. Other recent trends in Ethiopia’s pastoral lands entail the spread of land enclosures and privatization, livestock intensification, growth in livestock population, increasing conflicts, pastoral mobility restrictions, and shrinking herd sizes at the household level (Reid et al. 10). Wyoming rangelands are hit mainly by drought compared to other parts of the U.S. In this way, it is vital that Wyoming ranchers implement programs tailored to management issues that is threatening the sustainability of their ranches. In addition, Wyoming ranching operations land base entails permitted (federal, state) and private lands and cow-calf pairs constitutes the leading ranch establishments. The ranching operations also include additional endeavors that...