Understanding Land Use, Livelihoods, and Health Transitions among Tibetan Nomads: A Case from Gangga Township, Dingri County, Tibetan Autonomous Region of China |
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Authors: | Jianchu Xu Yong Yang Zhuoqing Li Nyima Tashi Rita Sharma Jing Fang |
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Institution: | (1) World Agroforestry Centre, China Program, c/o Kunming Institute of Botany, Kunming, Yunnan, 650204, China;(2) International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal;(3) Tibet Academy of Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Sciences, Lhasa, China;(4) Yunnan Institute of Environmental Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China |
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Abstract: | Tibetan nomads in the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China have experienced profound transitions in recent decades with important
implications for land use, livelihoods, and health development. The change from being traditional nomads to agropastoralists
engaged in permanent agriculture, a sedentary village life (known as “sedentarization”), has been associated with a remarkable
change in diet and lifestyle, decline in spatial mobility, increase in food production, and emerging infectious and noncommunicable
diseases. The overarching response of the government has been to emphasize infrastructure and technological solutions. The
local adaptation strategies of Tibetan nomads through maintaining balanced mobile herding, reindeer husbandry, as well as
off-farm labor and trade could address both the cause of environmental degradation and improve the well-being of local people.
Drawing on transdisciplinary, preliminary field work in Gangga Township of Dingri County in the foothills of Mt. Everest,
we identify pertinent linkages between land use and health, and spatial and temporal mismatch of livelihoods and health care
services, in the transition to sedentary village life. We suggest emerging imperatives in Ecohealth to help restore Tibetan
livelihoods in transition to a sedentary lifestyle. |
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Keywords: | Tibetan nomads ecosystem health transition |
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