English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Global: Zendy Free Plan

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

This study develops a methodology to identify hot spots of critical forage supply innomadic pastoralist areas, using the Afar Region, Ethiopia, as a special case. It addresses two mainproblems. First, it makes a spatially explicit assessment of fodder supply and demand extractedfrom a data poor environment. Fodder supply is assessed by combining rainfall-based productionfunctions and rule-based assessment for prevailing land use. Fodder demand is based on a dataconsistency check of livestock statistics concerning herd size, composition and geographicaldistribution. Second, individual herd movements have to be evaluated jointly in concurrentmigration patterns to assess local pressures on fodder resources. We, therefore, apply a transitionmodel that relates stock levels to seasonal migration routings for all Afar sub-clans jointly so as tolocalize the hot spots where feed demand exceeds forage supply. Critical areas come to the fore,especially, near fringes of Highlands and in the southern part of the Afar. A sensitivity test showsthat ‘Baseline’ scenario is close to the ‘Best’ but under ‘Worst’, the Afar region would fall intodespair. We conclude that the model is a useful tool to inform policy makers on critical areas in theAfar region.JRC.D.5-Food Securit

Identifying Hot Spots of Critical Forage Supply in Dryland Nomadic Pastoralist Areas: A Case Study for the Afar Region, Ethiopia