Why Herd Size Matters – Mitigating the Effects of Livestock Crashes
Analysing the effect of pastoral risk management strategies provides insights into a system of subsistence that have persevered in marginal areas for hundreds to thousands of years and may shed light into the future of around 200 million households in the face of climate change. This study investiga...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:3731343 2023-05-15T18:06:17+02:00 Why Herd Size Matters – Mitigating the Effects of Livestock Crashes Næss, Marius Warg Bårdsen, Bård-Jørgen 2013-08-01 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3731343 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23936386 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0070161 en eng Public Library of Science http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3731343 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23936386 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0070161 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. CC-BY Research Article Text 2013 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0070161 2013-09-05T03:21:36Z Analysing the effect of pastoral risk management strategies provides insights into a system of subsistence that have persevered in marginal areas for hundreds to thousands of years and may shed light into the future of around 200 million households in the face of climate change. This study investigated the efficiency of herd accumulation as a buffer strategy by analysing changes in livestock holdings during an environmental crisis in the Saami reindeer husbandry in Norway. We found a positive relationship between: (1) pre- and post-collapse herd size; and (2) pre-collapse herd size and the number of animals lost during the collapse, indicating that herd accumulation is an effective but costly strategy. Policies that fail to incorporate the risk-beneficial aspect of herd accumulation will have a limited effect and may indeed fail entirely. In the context of climate change, official policies that incorporate pastoral risk management strategies may be the only solution for ensuring their continued existence. Text reindeer husbandry saami PubMed Central (PMC) Norway PLoS ONE 8 8 e70161 |
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Analysing the effect of pastoral risk management strategies provides insights into a system of subsistence that have persevered in marginal areas for hundreds to thousands of years and may shed light into the future of around 200 million households in the face of climate change. This study investigated the efficiency of herd accumulation as a buffer strategy by analysing changes in livestock holdings during an environmental crisis in the Saami reindeer husbandry in Norway. We found a positive relationship between: (1) pre- and post-collapse herd size; and (2) pre-collapse herd size and the number of animals lost during the collapse, indicating that herd accumulation is an effective but costly strategy. Policies that fail to incorporate the risk-beneficial aspect of herd accumulation will have a limited effect and may indeed fail entirely. In the context of climate change, official policies that incorporate pastoral risk management strategies may be the only solution for ensuring their continued existence. |
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