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Sahelian Pastoral Corridors: Mobility as Climate-Adaptive Infrastructure
萨赫勒游牧通道：流动性作为气候适应型基础设施
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Transhumance routes across Niger, Mali, and Chad are not informal paths but formally negotiated corridors governed by inter-ethnic treaties updated annually via elder councils.
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These agreements specify grazing windows, well access rights, and veterinary checkpoints—functioning as distributed climate adaptation protocols long before COP summits.
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Satellite tracking shows herders now advance northward an average of 19 days earlier each decade, compressing traditional rest periods between dry-season pastures.
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National border fences disrupt not only movement, but the transmission of phenological knowledge encoded in Fulani oral poetry about acacia flowering cues.
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Mobile veterinary units operate along these corridors, their GPS logs revealing real-time disease vectors more accurately than centralized surveillance systems.
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What Western policy labels ‘land degradation’ often reflects deliberate grassland fallowing—strategic abandonment aligned with rainfall forecasts derived from termite mound morphology.
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Climate finance projects frequently fail because they prioritize fixed boreholes over maintaining corridor permeability—the true source of resilience.
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Herders’ spatial literacy includes reading wind-blown sand ripples to predict dust storms three days in advance, a skill absent from meteorological apps.
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Land tenure reforms imposing individual titles erase the layered, overlapping rights that enable adaptive sharing during drought-induced scarcity.
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This mobility is infrastructural: it distributes risk, circulates information, and maintains genetic diversity across fragmented landscapes.
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Policy must stop asking how to ‘settle’ pastoralists and start designing institutions that govern mobility as public good—not anomaly.
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Here, geography is not territory claimed, but relational velocity calibrated to atmospheric uncertainty.