Many policies are directed at transforming mobile pastoralists into settled agriculturalists or urban dwellers. Whether it’s due to climate change, market volatility or pandemic outbreaks, we don’t know what the future will hold. Our work in Sardinia in Italy shows how pastoralists engage with informal “real markets” to confront market volatility and uncertainty. A lifeline to the futureA world without pastoralists would be a poorer place materially, environmentally and culturally. And we would lose a lifeline to the future, where we can learn how to live with and from uncertainty, just like pastoralists have always done.

Source: Daily News Egypt July 01, 2023 20:53 UTC