Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

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

Original Research

Published on 22 Jun 2026

“We love our livestock”: relational care-based One Health in pastoral drylands

Evan F. Griffith
Angela Opondoh
Catherine Kaluwa
Erenius Lochede Nakadio
Kipkorir Rotich
Job Ronoh Kipkemoi
Jonah Levin
Jacob Mutua
Janetrix Hellen Amuguni

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.16200

Original Research

Published on 16 Jun 2026

Rainmaking and climate change: global discourse and local perspectives over regicide in South Sudan

Isao Murahashi

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.15944

Special Issue Editorial

Published on 12 Jun 2026

Editorial: The role of pastoral livestock and products in climate change: a complicated issue

Andrei Marin
Jonathan Davies
Fiona Flintan
Carol Kerven
Rashmi Singh

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.16611

Perspective

Published on 01 Jun 2026

Pastoral lands and the green transition: opportunities and challenges

Jonathan Davies
Suraj Pratap Singh Bhati
Hussein Wario
Maansi Rawat
Ann Waters-Bayer

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.16429

Original Research

Published on 20 May 2026

How is decision-making about grazing management influenced by reliance on rangelands at farm level? Insights from small ruminant farms in French Mediterranean areas

Elisa Deschamps
Magali Jouven

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.16171

Review

Published on 13 May 2026

Assimilation of indigenous nomadic pastoralist knowledge in the Public Governance of Sámi Reindeer Husbandry

Inger Marie G. Eira
Mathis P. Bongo
Mia Carina E. Jægervand
Anni M. Magga-Eira
Inger Ellen J. E. Gaup
Anders Oskal
Marina Tonkopeeva
Rauna Triumf
Ravdna Biret Marja E. Sara
Svein Disch Mathiesen

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.15834

Original Research

Published on 06 May 2026

Participatory livestock movement routes and resource mapping in pastoral areas of Oromia and Somali Regions, southern Ethiopia

Dagim Gebresilassie Berhanu
Yasin Getahun
Solomon Gizaw
Barbara Wieland
Samuel Tefera
Theodore Knight-Jones

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.15646

Original Research

Published on 04 May 2026

From margins to markets: overcoming stakeholder and information barriers in south Omo’s pastoral livestock trade, Ethiopia

Rahmeto Abebe
Abate Yesigat
Nigussie Afesha
Akalewold Fedilu
Mulye Girma
Yaynabeba Abayneh
Haile Welearegay
Mebratu Mulatu

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.15619

Original Research

Published on 28 Apr 2026

Farmers’ knowledge of, and attitudes towards oxpeckers in the Salambala Conservancy, northeastern Namibia

Michael S. Lukubwe
Adrian J. F. K. Craig
Charles Byaruhanga

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.15978

Original Research

Published on 28 Apr 2026

Beyond pastoralism: challenges and strategic solutions in Iranian sheep farming

Farbod Naghshbandi
Enayat Abbasi
Ali Maghsoudi
Aliakbar Masoudi
Rasoul Vaez Torshizi

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.15989

Original Research

Published on 23 Apr 2026

Analysis of property rights practice contradictions and typical models in grassland pastoral areas: a field survey based on Abaga Banner, Xilingol League, Inner Mongolia

Xiaoning Zhang

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.15977

Original Research

Published on 23 Apr 2026

Pastoralists as peacebuilders: lived experiences from conflict-affected communities in northern Nigeria

Emmanuel Ojo
Van Crowder
Austen Moore
Olusola Isola

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.15770

Original Research

Published on 10 Apr 2026

Feasibility analysis of livestock protection implementation on alpine pastures

Isabella E. Faffelberger
Felix Knauer

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.15739

Review

Published on 31 Mar 2026

Introducing a special issue: What lessons to be learnt from reindeer-herding research in Russia?

Joachim Otto Habeck
Kirill V. Istomin

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.15827

Review

Published on 25 Mar 2026

Rinderpest eradication and the resilience of African pastoralism

Luciano Venturi
Fabio Ostanello

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.15869

Original Research

Published on 20 Mar 2026

Enteric methane emission factors for sheep in Mongolian extensive grazing systems: a Tier 2 approach

Altantsetseg Lkhamaachin
Lkhagvatseren Sukhbaatar
Nyamsuren Nyam-Osor
Otgondemberel Galaaraidii
Yanfen Cheng
Togtokhbayar Norovsambuu
Choikhand Janchivlamdan
Munkhtuya Amarsanaa
Baasanjalbuu Bayaraa
Jigjidpurev Sukhbaatar

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.15693

Correction

Published on 20 Mar 2026

Correction: Characterization of goat production systems in the Amazonian dry tropical forest of Peru through multivariate analysis

Aníbal Rodríguez-Vargas
Lucinda Tafur-Gutiérrez
Emmanuel Alexander Sessarego
Gudelio Alva
Katherine Castañeda-Palomino
José Antonio Haro-Reyes
José Ruiz-Chamorro
Cecilio Barrantes-Campos
Juancarlos Alejandro Cruz

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.16426

Perspective

Published on 16 Mar 2026

Rethinking pastoralists’ development from their perspective of disasters-averted

Emery Roe

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.15551

Review

Published on 13 Mar 2026

A scoping review of national legislative frameworks governing rangelands in Kenya, with implications on community-based rangeland governance

Vicky Betty Chepkorir
Bessy Kathambi
Raphael G. Wahome
Charles Odhong

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.15700

Original Research

Published on 13 Mar 2026

Beyond victims and saviors: gendered and intersectional vulnerabilities and the efficacy of adaptation strategies in Hamer pastoralists of South Omo, Ethiopia

Alebachew Adem Nurye
Desalegn Yayeh Ayal
Meskerem Abi

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

doi 10.3389/past.2026.16015

477 Publications

volumes

Volume 16 - 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)

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

“We love our livestock”: relational care-based One Health in pastoral drylands

Rainmaking and climate change: global discourse and local perspectives over regicide in South Sudan

Editorial: The role of pastoral livestock and products in climate change: a complicated issue

Pastoral lands and the green transition: opportunities and challenges

How is decision-making about grazing management influenced by reliance on rangelands at farm level? Insights from small ruminant farms in French Mediterranean areas

Assimilation of indigenous nomadic pastoralist knowledge in the Public Governance of Sámi Reindeer Husbandry

Participatory livestock movement routes and resource mapping in pastoral areas of Oromia and Somali Regions, southern Ethiopia

From margins to markets: overcoming stakeholder and information barriers in south Omo’s pastoral livestock trade, Ethiopia

Farmers’ knowledge of, and attitudes towards oxpeckers in the Salambala Conservancy, northeastern Namibia

Beyond pastoralism: challenges and strategic solutions in Iranian sheep farming

Analysis of property rights practice contradictions and typical models in grassland pastoral areas: a field survey based on Abaga Banner, Xilingol League, Inner Mongolia

Pastoralists as peacebuilders: lived experiences from conflict-affected communities in northern Nigeria

Feasibility analysis of livestock protection implementation on alpine pastures

Introducing a special issue: What lessons to be learnt from reindeer-herding research in Russia?

Rinderpest eradication and the resilience of African pastoralism

Enteric methane emission factors for sheep in Mongolian extensive grazing systems: a Tier 2 approach

Correction: Characterization of goat production systems in the Amazonian dry tropical forest of Peru through multivariate analysis

Rethinking pastoralists’ development from their perspective of disasters-averted

A scoping review of national legislative frameworks governing rangelands in Kenya, with implications on community-based rangeland governance

Beyond victims and saviors: gendered and intersectional vulnerabilities and the efficacy of adaptation strategies in Hamer pastoralists of South Omo, Ethiopia