Following the Afar: Using remote tracking systems to analyze pastoralists' trekking routes

Responding to mobility constraints: Recent shifts in resource use practices and herding strategies in the Borana pastoral system, southern Ethiopia

“…GPS tracking was also used for assessing herders' grazing management and their related knowledge and decision making. Sonneveld et al (2009) delineated pastoralists' trekking routes using GPS while Adriansen andNielsen (2002, 2005) and Young et al (2013) combined GPS data with information from herder interviews to quantify mobility and characterize spatial-temporal mobility patterns.…”

An Integrated Approach to Modeling Grazing Pressure in Pastoral Systems: The Case of the Logone Floodplain (Cameroon)

“…A number of researchers studying livestock movements have used GPS technology that can be left on an animal for multiple days or months without recharging the battery and/ or offloading the data (Adriansen and Nielsen 2005;Sonneveld et al 2009). The GPS devices used in these studies are much heavier (ranging from 1 to 1.5 k) than the DC 20 we used and they collect fewer data points.…”

“…By following herds with a GPS, placing collars on animals, or giving GPS devices to herders, researchers have been able to describe daily herd movements in African pastoral systems (Adriansen and Nielsen 2005;Butt 2009;Butt et al 2009;Gautier et al 2005;Sonneveld et al 2009;Turner and Hiernaux 2002). Several studies have measured the effectiveness of using GPS and GIS technologies to understand the grazing behavior of animals (Barbari et al 2006;Turner and Hiernaux 2002).…”

Integrating local pastoral knowledge, participatory mapping, and species distribution modeling for risk assessment of invasive rubber vine (Cryptostegia grandiflora) in Ethiopia’s Afar region

“…nilotica, A. senegal, A. tortillis, Cadaba rotundfolia, Chrysopogon, Cymbopogon, Cynodon, and Dactyloctenium species, Dombera glabra, Salvadora persica, and Tamarix nilotica (Tikssa et al 2010, Bahru et al 2012, Wakie et al 2014. Afar is home to approximately 1.5 million people of which the majority (nearly 80%) are pastoralist (Sonneveld et al 2009), meaning they derive more than 50% of their income from livestock and livestock products (Rota and Sperandini 2009). Afar is also the dominant ethnic group (approximately 90%) and the main language spoken (Getachew 2001).…”