share-herding

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English

Verb

share-herding

  1. present participle and gerund of share-herd

Noun

share-herding (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of shareherding
    • 2003, Priscilla Stone, Peter Castro, “Gender Dynamics and Household Drought Coping and Recovery Strategies in South Wollo and Oromiya Zones, Ethiopia”, in Summary Proceedings of the Workshop on the SIS/IDR Research Programme in Eastern Amhara Region, Ethiopia, June 2003:
      Share-herding or purchase of small livestock are livelihood strategies within the reach of households headed by women, aided by children herders, but constraints including shortage of pasture and animal feed.
    • 2005, R. Khanam, Encyclopaedic ethnography of Middle-East and Central Asia, →ISBN:
      Burckhardt described share-herding (I, 17-18) between the tribes and the villagers of the Hawran, and it is implicit in the descriptions of livelihood attached to tribal listings in French Mandate records.
    • 2011 January-June, Anwar Shaheen, “Living on the Margins: A Socio-historical Profile of the Nomads in Pakistan”, in Pakistan Perspectives, volume 16, number 1:
      The cattle raising on the basis of share-herding is also popular.