share-herding

A form of share-herd — To care for the livestock that belong to someone else, in exchange for a percentage of the profits or offspring; to work as a shareherder.

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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of share-herd
nounshare-herding (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of shareherding.

    The cattle raising on the basis of share-herding is also popular.

    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
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    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.

    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

    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.

    2005, R. Khanam, Encyclopaedic ethnography of Middle-East and Central Asia, →ISBN
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