The New Model Nomad

Restrictions on nomadic ways of life

Mongolia is a nomadic State.

Bedouins like ourselves, eh, Esmeralda?

(c) Nomads, pastoralists, hunter gatherers and shifting cultivators

However, policies to replace pastoralism with sedentary cultivation in rangelands can contribute to desertification.

The nomads were ordered to pay restitution.

Approximately one third of the population is nomadic.

My family moved we're nomads.

In addition, training as a sheep farmer and training in tourist trades are offered.

They therefore stray to seek other pastures and thereby incur additional labour for the herders.

You're really rubbing shoulders with the world's last great nomadic people.

He was not convinced that the Traveller community itself wished to be regarded as such.

Institute for Development Anthropology (IDA) economic activities of women in pastoral and agropastoral societies in Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia conventional dam management of floodplain rivers in the dry tropics forestry in grazing systems.

And these migratory beekeepers are the last nomads of America.

Particular difficulties regarding nomadic peoples were brought to the attention of the Working Group.

Pastoralist systems are 20 more productive than traditional ranching methods. And pastoralists are more market savvy than many believe the Horn of Africa s pastoral livestock and meat trade is estimated to be worth 1 billion.

Farmers are also continuously harassed by militia and nomadic groups.

In one notable example, on 25 August the SLM A attacked nomadic herders near the village of Al Malam in South Darfur.

Clashes between farming groups and nomads were regular, as was the use of traditional reconciliation mechanisms.

44. The peoples of Kuwait came from Arabia about 200 years ago they include nomads, shepherds and pearl fishers.

These fundamentalists, becoming bandits of sorts, came to terms with the nomadic traffickers. All, including the traffickers, ended up embracing the fundamentalist rhetoric of revenge against infidels.

Nomadic societies and peoples have played a crucial role in the interaction between different civilizations, as for thousands of years they have served as a bridge between world civilizations.

The social structure of the nomadic Somalis is family and clan based.

The policy of certain countries to discourage nomadic life, pastoral mobility and the exploitation of certain rangelands has led to greater dependence on agricultural and sedentary life.

Among other things, pastoral nomadism permits societies to exploit the variable and patchy resources of the steppe.

We believe that that anniversary provides a welcome opportunity to trigger renewed interest in nomadic civilization and to facilitate the efforts of Member States to preserve and develop nomadic culture and traditions in modern society.

He stressed that Irish legislation on employment and the provision of goods and services specifically prohibited discrimination against Travellers and that, consequently, members of the Traveller community were entitled to seek legal redress for any violation of their rights.

I guess one part of me has always been a nomad, physically and spiritually.

These are the Tuareg nomads, and they're living their lives much as they have for centuries.

The Committee notes with appreciation the provision of mobile schools for children of nomadic communities.

An example of that is the great nomadic civilization of the Eurasian steppe, of which my country is a part.

However, the role and contribution of nomadic civilizations has, by and large, received little attention to date.

She enquired about the basis for racist attitudes towards members of the Traveller community.

Indeed, nomadic civilization has served for thousands of years as a bridge between world civilizations.

The new administrations reportedly favoured in some instances the nomadic Arab tribes to the detriment of the Zaghawa and the Massaleet, for example by promising them land rights in areas traditionally inhabited by the latter.

Recently, the expansion of the Maaleh Adumim settlement has given rise to repeated forcible expulsions from its vicinity of members of the Jahalin bedouin tribe.

They also stressed the importance of issues related to livestock, pastoralism and the nomadic sector, which figure greatly in the economic and social development of the subregion.

40. The rural population in the country s five districts consists mainly of nomadic herdsmen living precariously on pastures depleted by drought and overgrazing.

But it is also a struggle for survival between economic lifestyles peasants and nomads and the borderline between those two is not the same as that between Arabs and Africans.

Other popular subjects were electricity and electronics, agriculture and stockraising, tourism and building.

Pastoralism is thus an essential livelihood system, with the potential to help overcome food insecurity particularly in Somalia, where more than 50 of the population are nomadic herders. In order to unleash this potential, a strong support system that improves pastoralists access to capital and markets, while bolstering human resource development and capacity building, is needed.

In several African countries, sectoral grazing legislation has transferred responsibility for management of natural resources to the pastoral communities, yet without giving them any real decision making power.

Millions of people have been forced to abandon their lands as farming and nomadic lifestyles have become unsustainable.

What we had failed to understand was that these seasonal humidity environments of the world, the soil and the vegetation developed with very large numbers of grazing animals, and that these grazing animals developed with ferocious pack hunting predators.