Societies dependent on domestic animals for subsistence and predominantly occupied with herding on natural pasture are characterized as pastoral, after the Latinic term pastor for ‘pasture’. The early domestication of herd...

Pastoralism is a form of livelihood based upon the management of herds of domestic animals, including, in the Old World, cattle, sheep, goats, horses, camels, yak and reindeer, and in the New World, llamas and alpacas. It is well adapted to semi-arid,...

Pastoralism or Pastoral Farming is the branch of agriculture concerned with the raising of livestock. It is animal husbandry: the care, tending and use of animals such as camels, goats, cattle, yaks, llamas, sheep etc. It may have a mobile aspect,...