Children and Involvement in Animal Rearing: A Traditional Occupation for Sustainability of Nomadic Culture?

Torimiro, D. O.; Dionco-Adetayo, Erlinda A.; Okorie, Victor Ogbonnaya

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“…The sedentary Fulani are predominantly Muslims. This finding agrees with previous studies which also reported all respondents to be Muslim (Torimiro et al, 2003;Adedoyin et al, 1997).…”

Section: Socio-economic Characteristics Of the Respondentssupporting

confidence: 93%

Gender Involvement of Sedentary Fulani in Dairy Farming Practices in Osun State, Nigeria

Agboola

Ojo

Famakinwa

et al. 2020

Contemporary Agriculture

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SummaryThe study assessed the gender involvement of sedentary Fulani in dairy farming practices in Osun State, Nigeria. A multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select 256 respondents from 12 Local Government Areas (LGAs) inhabited by the sedentary Fulani in the study area. Interview schedules were used for quantitative data collection. Data were analyzed and interpreted using descriptive statistics such as frequency counts, percentages, means and standard deviations while one-way ANOVA was used to draw inferences on the hypothesis. The results showed that the mean age of the male and female respondents was 34.05 ± 12.49 years and 33.33 ± 13.14 years respectively. The majority of the male (85.9 %) and female (89.8 %) respondents had no formal education. The mean herd size of male and female respondents was 20 ± 2 and 5 ± 2 heads of cattle respectively. All of the male respondents indicated that fencing, grazing and milking were male gender roles, while all female respondents indicated that cleaning of pens, sales of milk/milk products and processing of milk were female gender roles. The study showed that 42.7% of the male and10.2% of the female respondents had high level of involvement in dairy farming activities, while 24.7% of the male and 44.2% of the female respondents had low level of involvement. Further results revealed that there were significant differences (F = 312.80) between the male and female respondents in their involvement in dairy farming practice. The study concluded that there is gender gap in male and female involvement in dairy farming practices.

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“…The sedentary Fulani are predominantly Muslims. This finding agrees with previous studies which also reported all respondents to be Muslim (Torimiro et al, 2003;Adedoyin et al, 1997).…”

Section: Socio-economic Characteristics Of the Respondentssupporting

confidence: 93%

Gender Involvement of Sedentary Fulani in Dairy Farming Practices in Osun State, Nigeria

Agboola

Ojo

Famakinwa

et al. 2020

Contemporary Agriculture

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“…Death for these individuals may have been due to any number or combination of factors that are not evident from their skeletons, but add to the concept of a fast life history where life expectancy is short (Walker et al, ). Children may have been earlier net producers with adult roles and their associated risks ascribed early in life (Kramer, ; Torimiro, Dionco‐Adetayo, & Okorie, ). Results from a gendered funerary analysis for the KA‐5 group identified 14 years as the threshold age of adulthood for those interred within the kurgans (Berseneva, ).…”

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Life in the fast lane: Settled pastoralism in the Central Eurasian Steppe during the Middle Bronze Age

Judd

Walker

Miller

et al. 2018

American J Hum Biol

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Skeletal stress markers and injuries were uncommon among the KA-5 and regional groups, but a MBA-LBA high subadult mortality indicates elevated frailty levels and inability to survive acute illnesses. Following an optimal weaning program, subadults were at risk for physiological insult and many succumbed. Only a small number of individuals attained biological maturity during the MBA, suggesting that a fast life history was an adaptive regional response to a less hospitable and perhaps unstable environment.

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“…This suggests that the respondents had many dependents. Also, it shows that the majority of the respondents might have had access to free labor, since in Africa the members of one's household form part of his or her labor force (Torimiro, Dionco-Adetayo, & Okorie, 2003). This, accordingly, could be the impetus for women's participation in artisanal fi shery.…”

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Rural Women’s Livelihood Strategies: A Case Study of Fishery Communities in the Niger Delta, Nigeria

Okorie

Williams

2009

Gender, Technology and Development

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This study investigated livelihood strategies of women in the Niger Delta in Nigeria, with a focus on artisanal fi shery. Specifi cally, it described the demographic characteristics of the women, identifi ed other means of livelihood available to the respondents, and established the correlates of women's participation in fi sh production along with the benefi ts and constraints associated with their participation. A validated interview schedule was used to elicit information from 600 women, who were selected through a multistage sampling procedure. The results revealed that the majority (71.67 percent) of the women participated extensively in artisanal fi shery, with none possessing skills in pond fi sh production. Access to communal facilities (χ 2 = 6.43, p < 0.05) was strongly associated with their participation in artisanal fi shery. At p < 0.05, capital needed for expansion (r = 0.72) and present capital (r = 0.54) were positively and signifi cantly related to women's level of participation in fi sh production. However, the "fi sh-for-sex" phenomenon, confl ict between productive and reproductive roles, as well as vectors of oppression (marital status and illiteracy) were found to impinge on women's participation. However, dissemination of information on fi sh ponds among women was identifi ed as an innovative appropriate technology that could improve women's livelihoods. The study therefore recommended implementation of women-oriented interventionist's programs with the following components: skill acquisition for farmed fi sh, subsidized appropriate technologies for fi sh pond production, and provision of soft loans.

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Children and Involvement in Animal Rearing: A Traditional Occupation for Sustainability of Nomadic Culture?

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Gender Involvement of Sedentary Fulani in Dairy Farming Practices in Osun State, Nigeria

Gender Involvement of Sedentary Fulani in Dairy Farming Practices in Osun State, Nigeria

Life in the fast lane: Settled pastoralism in the Central Eurasian Steppe during the Middle Bronze Age

Rural Women’s Livelihood Strategies: A Case Study of Fishery Communities in the Niger Delta, Nigeria

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