Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

Original Research

Published on 04 Nov 2026

Divergent institutional trajectories under a common policy framework: a comparative study of two pastoral townships on the eastern Tibetan Plateau

Tshering Bande

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.16810

Original Research

Published on 28 Oct 2026

Understanding social-ecological vulnerability in goat pastoral systems through a participatory multi-stakeholder spatial assessment

Andrea Valeria Guzmán-Miranda
Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald
Rodrigo Dávila-Ortiz
Natalia Martínez-Tagüeña
Fredy Alvarado
María Isabel Mora-Ledesma
Mauricio Velázquez-Martínez

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.17175

Original Research

Published on 27 Oct 2026

Balancing tradition and modernity: meat consumption trends in coastal West Africa

Serena Ferrari
Abdrahmane Wane

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.15507

Brief Research Report

Published on 27 Oct 2026

Nam Wa buffalo and Lua extensive farming: seasonal forest grazing and local governance in Nan, Thailand

Nicolas Lainé
Suthee Janyasuthiwong
Suriyawut Ketui
Kim Fooyontphanich

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.16278

Correction

Published on 26 Oct 2026

Correction: Feasibility analysis of livestock protection implementation on alpine pastures

Pastoralism Production Office

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.17998

Original Research

Published on 23 Oct 2026

Historical mobility and settlement transitions influence livestock farmers’ climate risk perceptions and strategies against feed gaps in Central Côte d’Ivoire

Theresa Ebert
Ange-Jokebed Adjoua N'Goran
Faustin Parfait Koutouan
Ariane Amin
Johannes Isselstein
Sala Lamega

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.17299

Original Research

Published on 22 Oct 2026

Between Gobra and Guzerat: a reinvention of human-cattle-environment relationships in the Great Green Wall (northern Senegal)

Chloe Laloi
Amadou Hamath Diallo
Jean-Noël Ferrié
Priscilla Duboz

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.16069

Original Research

Published on 21 Oct 2026

Diversity, seasonal availability, and nutritional value of indigenous cattle forages in pastoral and agro-pastoral systems of the Omo–Woito River Basin, southern Ethiopia

Tesfaye Edjem
Yisehak Kechero
Asrat Guja

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.16541

Original Research

Published on 14 Oct 2026

Livestock production, productivity, and sustainability in Ethiopian pastoral systems: evidence from Fentale District

Abera Jabessa Fufa
Kefala Taye Mekonnen
Befekadu Chemere Beyenssa
Hewani Jabessa Fufa

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.16409

Original Research

Published on 14 Oct 2026

Microclimatic variations in daytime behavioural budgets and growth performance of communal beef cattle with contrasting coat phenotypes

Mhlangabezi Slayi
Siphe Zantsi
Lwandiso Mdiya

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.17418

Original Research

Published on 29 Sep 2026

Insights into pastoralist households’ coping and adaptive strategies during northern Kenya’s 2019–2022 drought

Gufu Oba
Hussein Tadicha Wario
Hassan Guyo Roba

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.16489

Original Research

Published on 22 Sep 2026

Pastoralist women’s perceptions of tenure security and implications for collective tenure regimes, policies and practices

Fiona Flintan
Magda Nassef
Issa Sawadogo
Hussein Sulieman
Ken Otieno
Ian Langdown
Anna Locke
Ruth Meinzen-Dick
Cheryl Doss

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.16531

Original Research

Published on 21 Sep 2026

Forecasting pastoralist red meat production trajectories in a fragile and climate-vulnerable state: a comparative evaluation of classical, state-space, long-memory, and neural network models in Somalia

Abdirisak Osman Bade
Dahir Muse Shire
Saleban Mohamed Hassan
Abdisalam Hassan Muse

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.17161

Original Research

Published on 27 Aug 2026

School and pastoralism in the Senegalese Sahel: tensions, adaptations, and social transformations

Abdou Ka

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.16908

Original Research

Published on 24 Aug 2026

Characterization of mixed livestock systems applied by small-scale breeders in the high Andean region of Ayacucho, Peru

Walter Palomino-Guerrera
Hamilton Guzman
Mijaíl Contreras
Fritz Trillo

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.16335

Original Research

Published on 06 Aug 2026

An exploratory analysis of the Tunisian dromedary camel value chains for sustainable development in arid rangelands

Asma Souissi
Boubaker Dhehibi
Derek Baker
Abdrahmane Wane
Stefan Burkart
Fiona Flintan

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.16487

Original Research

Published on 04 Aug 2026

Antibiotic use practices in food systems in Senegal: a cross-sectional survey of pastoral livestock farming in Kaffrine

Mouhamadou Moustapha Sow
Kadiatou Barry
Arfang Diamanka
Rosalie Martine Ndew Seck
Ahmed Iyane Sow
Cheikh Ly
Assane Gueye Fall
Nicolas Djighnoum Diouf
Ndeye Mery Dia
Mamadou Ciss

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.16798

Review

Published on 31 Jul 2026

Climate variability and the pastoralist’s dilemma: socio-economic impacts on livestock systems in East Africa

Kelvin Ngongolo
Atuhombye Sigala
Kasim Sakran Abass
Doreen Mrimi

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.16791

Original Research

Published on 17 Jul 2026

Perceptions and attitudes of consumers and non-consumers towards goat milk and its derived products in northern Benin

Oyeniran T. L. F. Offoumon
Alassan Assani
Hilaire S. Sanni Worogo
Tobi Okambawa
Loukaiya Zorobouragui
Zhairath F. Adambi Boukari
Cham A. D. Alabi
Yaya Idrissou
Eloi Y. Attakpa
Ibrahim T. Alkoiret

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.16705

Original Research

Published on 16 Jul 2026

Distribution of soil carbon and nitrogen in Mediterranean oak silvopastoral systems under grazing

Julio Henrique Germano De Souza
Gelson dos Santos Difante
Otávio Francé
Maria Rosa Mosquera-Losada
Marina Castro

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.16765

Original Research

Published on 07 Jul 2026

Pastoralist policy paradoxes in the Anthropocene. Relational ontologies and the marginalisation of lifeways among the Maasai (Tanzania), Hamar (Ethiopia), and the Fulani (the Sahel)

Sara de Wit
Sara Petrollino
Han van Dijk
Mirjam de Bruijn

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.16130

Original Research

Published on 06 Jul 2026

Phenotypic diversity and milk production performance of Somali camel ecotypes under extensive pastoral systems

Shafii Abdullahi Mohamed
Daha Hussein Mumin
Abdiaziz Ahmed Shurie
Abdinor Mohamed Mohamud
Hussein Mohamed Farah
Abdimajid Ali Abdullahi
Hassan Mohamed Hassan
Mehar S. Khatkar
Abdirahman A. Ali
Peter C. Thomson

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.16713

Original Research

Published on 26 Jun 2026

Pastoral vulnerability to drought: geographic and socio-demographic drivers of drought-related camel mortality in Somalia

Mohamed Abdirahim Omar
Mohamed Ahmed Hassan
Abdisalam Hassan Muse

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.16714

Original Research

Published on 26 Jun 2026

Reconsidering the middleman: asymmetries in a direct-contact producer-buyer alpaca fiber roundtable in Peru

Julia Bello-Bravo
Luiz F. Brito
Gerardo Cornelio Mamani Mamani
Yezelia Danira Cáceres Cabana

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.16455

497 articles

articles

Divergent institutional trajectories under a common policy framework: a comparative study of two pastoral townships on the eastern Tibetan Plateau

Understanding social-ecological vulnerability in goat pastoral systems through a participatory multi-stakeholder spatial assessment

Balancing tradition and modernity: meat consumption trends in coastal West Africa

Nam Wa buffalo and Lua extensive farming: seasonal forest grazing and local governance in Nan, Thailand

Correction: Feasibility analysis of livestock protection implementation on alpine pastures

Historical mobility and settlement transitions influence livestock farmers’ climate risk perceptions and strategies against feed gaps in Central Côte d’Ivoire

Between Gobra and Guzerat: a reinvention of human-cattle-environment relationships in the Great Green Wall (northern Senegal)

Diversity, seasonal availability, and nutritional value of indigenous cattle forages in pastoral and agro-pastoral systems of the Omo–Woito River Basin, southern Ethiopia

Livestock production, productivity, and sustainability in Ethiopian pastoral systems: evidence from Fentale District

Microclimatic variations in daytime behavioural budgets and growth performance of communal beef cattle with contrasting coat phenotypes

Insights into pastoralist households’ coping and adaptive strategies during northern Kenya’s 2019–2022 drought

Pastoralist women’s perceptions of tenure security and implications for collective tenure regimes, policies and practices

Forecasting pastoralist red meat production trajectories in a fragile and climate-vulnerable state: a comparative evaluation of classical, state-space, long-memory, and neural network models in Somalia

School and pastoralism in the Senegalese Sahel: tensions, adaptations, and social transformations

Characterization of mixed livestock systems applied by small-scale breeders in the high Andean region of Ayacucho, Peru

An exploratory analysis of the Tunisian dromedary camel value chains for sustainable development in arid rangelands

Antibiotic use practices in food systems in Senegal: a cross-sectional survey of pastoral livestock farming in Kaffrine

Climate variability and the pastoralist’s dilemma: socio-economic impacts on livestock systems in East Africa

Perceptions and attitudes of consumers and non-consumers towards goat milk and its derived products in northern Benin

Distribution of soil carbon and nitrogen in Mediterranean oak silvopastoral systems under grazing

Pastoralist policy paradoxes in the Anthropocene. Relational ontologies and the marginalisation of lifeways among the Maasai (Tanzania), Hamar (Ethiopia), and the Fulani (the Sahel)

Phenotypic diversity and milk production performance of Somali camel ecotypes under extensive pastoral systems

Pastoral vulnerability to drought: geographic and socio-demographic drivers of drought-related camel mortality in Somalia

Reconsidering the middleman: asymmetries in a direct-contact producer-buyer alpaca fiber roundtable in Peru