Providing winter bases for transhumant herders in Altai,Xinjiang China: some consequences and lessons learned
For centuries Kazakh herders in Altai, Xinjiang, N.W.China have followed an ancient transhumant system moving with their livestock from the low desert areas, where they winter, to the higher summer pastures for rich summer grazing, moving back down again as the days become shorter and colder.A major constraint to improving livestock production and family incomes is the lack of feed during winter and early spring which reduces the number of animals that can be carried through the winter.Attempts have been made in a number of countries to settle nomadic people permanently, often with less than desirable social consequences.This project attempted to provide settled bases for herders, where fodder for the winter period is produced and where education and social facilities for the herdershouseholds are provided, but where, for the major part of the year, the traditional transhumant system is followed.
transhumance fodder winter bases
S.G.Reynolds Wang Wan Lin J.M.Suttie C.Batello
Presently and formerly with the Food and Agriculture Organiz ation of the United Nations,Viale delle The Foreign Funds Project Executive of fice,Xinjiang Animal Husbandry Bureau,Urumqi,Xinjiang,P.R.Chi
国际会议
呼和浩特
英文
2008-06-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）