scholarly journals Education inclusion as a border regime: implications for mobile pastoralists in Ethiopia’s Afar region

2020 ◽  
pp. 39-59
Author(s):  
Caroline Dyer
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Pastoralists ◽  
Afar Region

CURIE DEPTH ANALYSIS OF THE AFAR REGION, ETHIOPIA

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin L. Mickus ◽  
◽  
David L. Bridges
Keyword(s):  
Afar Region ◽  
Curie Depth ◽  
Depth Analysis

scholarly journals Barriers and facilitators to accessing skilled birth attendants in Afar region, Ethiopia

Midwifery ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 540-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemary King ◽  
Ruth Jackson ◽  
Elaine Dietsch ◽  
Asseffa Hailemariam
Keyword(s):  
Barriers And Facilitators ◽  
Skilled Birth Attendants ◽  
Birth Attendants ◽  
Afar Region

scholarly journals Estimating population and livestock density of mobile pastoralists and sedentary settlements in the south-eastern Lake Chad area

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vreni Jean-Richard ◽  
Lisa Crump ◽  
Abbani Alhadj Abicho ◽  
Ali Abba Abakar ◽  
Abdraman Mahamat II ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Population Density ◽  
Small Ruminants ◽  
Dry Season ◽  
Land Use Management ◽  
Lake Chad ◽  
Mobile Pastoralists ◽  
Livestock Density ◽  
Density Dynamics ◽  
First Time

Mobile pastoralists provide major contributions to the gross domestic product in Chad, but little information is available regarding their demography. The Lake Chad area population is increasing, resulting in competition for scarce land and water resources. For the first time, the density of people and animals from mobile and sedentary populations was assessed using randomly defined sampling areas. Four sampling rounds were conducted over two years in the same areas to show population density dynamics. We identified 42 villages of sedentary communities in the sampling zones; 11 (in 2010) and 16 (in 2011) mobile pastoralist camps at the beginning of the dry season and 34 (in 2011) and 30 (in 2012) camps at the end of the dry season. A mean of 64.0 people per km2 (95% confidence interval, 20.3-107.8) were estimated to live in sedentary villages. In the mobile communities, we found 5.9 people per km2 at the beginning and 17.5 people per km2 at the end of the dry season. We recorded per km2 on average 21.0 cattle and 31.6 small ruminants in the sedentary villages and 66.1 cattle and 102.5 small ruminants in the mobile communities, which amounts to a mean of 86.6 tropical livestock units during the dry season. These numbers exceed, by up to five times, the published carrying capacities for similar Sahelian zones. Our results underline the need for a new institutional framework. Improved land use management must equally consider the needs of mobile communities and sedentary populations.

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