Lifestyle and Livelihood Changes Among Formerly Nomadic Peoples

Entrepreneurship, Diversity and Urbanisation

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Av A. Allan Degen, Léo-Paul Dana, Leo-Paul Dana

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The book illustrates how some groups like the Borana and the Maasai practice livelihood diversity and raise productive livestock, and how other groups migrate to urban centers in search of employment and remit money to family members left in the rural areas.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-03-01
Mått155 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt552 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEthnic and Indigenous Business Studies
Antal sidor338
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031511448

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A. Allan Degen is an Emeritus Professor at Ben-Gurion University (Israel). A graduate of Tel Aviv University, Prof. Degen was the incumbent of the Slome Chair for Desert Animal Production, Chairman of the Department of Dryland Agriculture, and Head of the Unit for Desert Animal Production and Husbandry. He has authored or co-authored over 25 books or chapters and 325 papers in peer reviewed journals. Léo-Paul Dana is Professor at Dalhousie University (Canada) and at ICD Business School of Paris (France). He is also associated with the Chaire ETI at Sorbonne Business School (France). A graduate of McGill University (Canada), he has served as a Marie Curie Fellow at Princeton University (USA) and Visiting Professor at INSEAD.

Part I: Africa.- 1. Declining grazing lands and climate change are forcing Maasai to diversify their livelihoods: Antecedents of Maasai entrepreneurial motivations and socioeconomic change.- 2. Herders who fish: Findings from pastoral and agropastoral communities in Kenya and South Sudan.- 3. Did Boru, Moshe Schwartz, Shaher El-Meccawi and Michael Kam: Borana cattle pastoralists in southern Ethiopia are diversifying their livelihoods by cultivating land and raising camels.- Part II: Middle East.- 4. From nomads to agro-pastoralists to urbanites.- 5. The nomad entrepreneurs of Iran: The history, major nomads, entrepreneurial activities, and challenges.- Part III: South Asia – Afghanistan, Nepal, India, Bangladesh.- 6. Land as a golden tent-peg: Settlement and change among nomads in northern Afghanistan.- 7. Challenges to transhumant pastoralism due to socio-economic and ecological changes in Nepal's high mountains.- 8. Mobility to Sedentarisation: Pastoralism from colonial to post-colonial period in Uttarakhand Himalaya (India).- 9. The Bede community- A nomadic group in Bangladesh.- Part IV: East Asia - China and Mongolia.- 10. Centralisation of livestock and grassland management through cooperatives in Tibetan pastoral areas of Qinghai, People’s Republic of China.- 11. Transformation from nomadic to sedentary livestock production in Inner Mongolia.- 12. Mongolia’s pastoral nomadism in transition: Putting case studies on socioecological feedbacks and socioeconomic forcing into a conceptual framework.- Part V: Arctic Region.- 13. Mechanisms for the positive transformation of the Arctic indigenous peoples from traditional nomadic reindeer herders to a more settled lifestyle.- 14. Snowmobile revolution and sedentarization of reindeer-herding nomads in the Kola Peninsula and Bolshezemelskaya tundra, northern European Russia.- 15. The Inuit – from igloos and tents and nomadic subsistence hunting and fishing to permanent settlements and heated homes.