Mark Moritz is Professor of Anthropology at the Ohio State University, USA. He has conducted research on pastoral systems in Central Africa and Southern Arabia, using a combination of ethnographic methods, spatial analyses, comparative analyses, and agent-based modelling to explore questions about common-pool resources, the ecology of infectious diseases, and economic transformations.Igshaan Samuels is a specialist researcher in Range and Forage Sciences at the Agricultural Research Council in South Africa. He is the Global Co-chair of the Global Alliance for the United Nations declared International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists in 2026. Nikolaus Schareika is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Göttingen, Germany. He has extensively worked in pastoral societies, particularly in groups of Woɗaaɓe and Fulani people in West Africa. Eva Schlecht chairs the joint section Animal Husbandry in the Tropics and Subtropics at the Universities of Kassel and Göttingen, Germany. With over thirty years’ research across Africa, Asia, and the Near East, she examines livestock–environment interactions, related ecosystem services, and how animal husbandry supports livelihoods and food security.