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Transhumance in Ethiopia, the Glossary

In the crop growing season, transhumance is practised on a broad scale in the northern Ethiopian highlands, as farmland and its stubble can no longer be accessed by livestock.^[1]

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Transhumance

Ab'aro

The Ab’aro is a river of the Nile basin.

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Afar cattle

The Afar cattle are mainly found on the western margins of the Danakil Depression in Ethiopia.

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Afar Region

The Afar Region (Qafar Rakaakayak; ዓፋር ክልል), formerly known as Region 2, is a regional state in northeastern Ethiopia and the homeland of the Afar people.

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Agriculture

Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.

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Arable land

Arable land (from the arabilis, "able to be ploughed") is any land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops.

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Arado cattle

The red and black coated Arado cattle are small and hardy.

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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.

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Ayninbirkekin

Ayninbirkekin is a tabia or municipality in the Dogu'a Tembien district of the Tigray Region of Ethiopia.

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Butter

Butter is a dairy product made from the fat and protein components of churned cream.

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Crop residue

Crop residues are waste materials generated by agriculture.

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Dogu'a Tembien

Dogu'a Tembien ("Upper Tembien", sometimes transliterated as Degua Tembien or Dägʿa Tämben) is a woreda in Tigray Region, Ethiopia.

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Enderta (woreda)

Enderta (also transliterated as ʾƎndärta) is one of the woredas in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia.

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Ethiopian Christmas

Ethiopian Christmas is a holiday celebrated by the Ethiopian Orthodox and Eritrean Orthodox churches, as well as Protestant and Catholic denominations in Ethiopia, on 7 January (Tahsas 29 in the Ethiopian calendar).

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Ethiopian Highlands

The Ethiopian Highlands (also called the Abyssinian Highlands) is a rugged mass of mountains in Ethiopia in Northeast Africa.

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Fodder

Fodder, also called provender, is any agricultural foodstuff used specifically to feed domesticated livestock, such as cattle, rabbits, sheep, horses, chickens and pigs.

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Giba River

The Giba is a river of northern Ethiopia.

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Great Rift Valley, Ethiopia

The Great Rift Valley of Ethiopia, (or Main Ethiopian Rift or Ethiopian Rift Valley) is a branch of the East African Rift that runs through Ethiopia in a southwest direction from the Afar Triple Junction.

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Haddinnet

Haddinnet, also transliterated as Hadnet, is a tabia or municipality in the Dogu'a Tembien district of the Tigray Region of Ethiopia.

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Herbaceous plant

Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persistent woody stems above ground.

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Hintalo Wajirat

Hintalo Wajirat is one of the Districts of Ethiopia or woredas in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia.

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Livestock

Livestock are the domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting in order to provide labour and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.

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Mahbere Sillasie

Mahbere Sillasie is a tabia or municipality in the Dogu'a Tembien district of the Tigray Region of Ethiopia.

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Milk

Milk is a white liquid food produced by the mammary glands of mammals.

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Pastoralism

Pastoralism is a form of animal husbandry where domesticated animals (known as "livestock") are released onto large vegetated outdoor lands (pastures) for grazing, historically by nomadic people who moved around with their herds.

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Raya cattle

The long-horned Raya cattle are a breed of cattle common in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia.

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Rock shelter

A rock shelter (also rockhouse, crepuscular cave, bluff shelter, or abri) is a shallow cave-like opening at the base of a bluff or cliff.

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Secondary forest

A secondary forest (or second-growth forest) is a forest or woodland area which has regenerated through largely natural processes after human-caused disturbances, such as timber harvest or agriculture clearing, or equivalently disruptive natural phenomena.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumance_in_Ethiopia