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Pastoral Herd Management, Drought Coping Strategies, and Cattle Mobility in Southern Kenya

Butt, Bilal, Shortridge, Ashton, WinklerPrins, Antoinette M.G.A.·2009·Annals of the Association of American Geographers
DOI 10.1080/00045600802685895
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Abstract

Livestock mobility facilitates opportunistic grazing management strategies that pastoralists employ to counter environmental variability in rangelands. One such strategy is moving livestock to temporary camps that are closer to areas of underutilized forage during times of drought. In areas where pastoralists graze near large protected areas, movement into protected areas, where both forage quantity and quality are higher, is also a common strategy. The aim of this study is to test hypotheses of herd relocation and effects of seasonality and herd size on spatially explicit parameters of cattle mobility for Maasai pastoralists along the northern border of a protected area in Kenya. Modified Global Positioning System (GPS) collars were placed on cattle from ten Maasai households that recorded three parameters of mobility for hundreds of grazing orbits from August 2005 to August 2006. Data were grouped by two constraints—seasonality and herd size—and tested against the two types of enclosure locations (temporary camps and permanent settlements). Hypotheses were formed on the basis of the current knowledge within the literature and analyzed using a series of analyses of variance. Results suggest that household relocation reduces the stress faced by pastoralists and their cattle during the drought by (1) lowering the average total daily distance and time traveled by cattle, (2) directing cattle toward the protected area, and (3) concentrating cattle grazing in distinct areas withi…

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Authors
Butt, B., Shortridge, A., & WinklerPrins, A. M. G. A.
Affiliations
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
  • Michigan State University (US)
ORCID
Venue
Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2009-04-22
Volume
99
Issue
2
Pages
309-334
ISSN
  • 0004-5608 (ISSN-L)
  • 1467-8306
DOI
10.1080/00045600802685895
OpenAlex
W2065072985
Cited by
145
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FWCI
23.38
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Annals of the Association of American Geographers (publishedVersion)
  • CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Forestry › Agricultural and Rural Development Research
Keywords
pastoralism, drought coping strategies, Maasai, protected areas, rangeland management, seasonal migration, herd size, GPS collars, livestock movement, grazing behavior, southern Kenya

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