Know to move, move to know : ecological knowledge and herd movement strategies among the Wodaabe of Southeastern Niger by Schareika, Nikolaus, Kenmore, Peter E. (Peter Ervin); Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Interdepartmental Working Group on Biological Diversity for Food and Agriculture instant download

Know to move, move to know : ecological knowledge and herd movement strategies among the Wodaabe of Southeastern Niger by Schareika, Nikolaus, Kenmore, Peter E. (Peter Ervin); Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Interdepartmental Working Group on Biological Diversity for Food and Agriculture instant download

60 pages : 30 cm, Foreword by Peter Kenmore, Local knowledge plays a vital role in conserving biodiversity and ecosystems function in semi-arid rangelands. The Wodaabe nomads strive to promote the prosperity of their herds through pastoral mobility and labor. The latter comprises many tasks such as driving animals to graze, watering animals at wells, feeding them minerals, searching for pastures. The relationship between the herder, his red Zebu cattle and the bush land is marked on the one hand by cultural values such as the endeavour to leave the herd in good shape to his descendants; and on the other hand by Sahelian economic life in which the Wodaabe work to maximize herd fertility in order to gain animal wealth for market exchange and milk for household consumption, Includes bibliographical references (pages 57-60)