“…Shifts in land-use and land tenure have affected livestock mobility, rangeland status, livestock productivity, and herd sizes, and, ultimately, food production, food security, and pastoralists' welfare. Reviews by Galvin (2009), Reid et al (2014), andCoppock et al (2017) highlighted the roles of land privatization, pastoralist sedentarization, cropland expansion, farmer-herder conflict, protected area delimitation, and large-scale land grabbing and acquisition, in fragmenting rangelands and constraining animal mobility (see also Bukari et al, 2020;Turner et al, 2014Turner et al, , 2016. The lack of legislation and policies supporting local and regional livestock movements, as in some countries of the Sahel, is another factor promoting more sedentary and less productive livestock husbandry (Gonin and Gautier, 2015).…”