pastoralist Definition
pas·to·ral·ist (pas′tər əl əst)
noun
- a person who raises livestock, esp. a nomadic herder
- a writer whose style or subjects are pastoral
pastoralist Usage Examples
Possessives
- animal: If pastoralists ' animals do not survive, neither will their way of life.
- life: Natural ecologists, they led a pastoralist's life, living in complete harmony with their land.
Converse of object
- help: These cows, as breeding cows, will play an important role in helping pastoralists to restock their herds.
- support: FARM-Africa will continue to support pastoralists to ensure that their voices are heard and their way of life sustained.
- assist: FAO is appealing for $ 11.4 million to provide agricultural inputs and assist pastoralists in the affected countries.
- give: Land rights would give pastoralists much more incentive to invest in the natural resources of the rangeland.
Adjective modifier
- nomadic: The Somali are predominantly nomadic pastoralists living in the northern part of the Somali Democratic Republic in northeastern Africa.
- African: Even African pastoralists, whose lives depend on cows, sheep and goats, get more nutrition from milk than from meat.
- local: In fact, these fields have been the focus of conflict between farm managers and local pastoralists ever since their construction in the 1980s.
- poor: In turn, the livelihoods of thousands of poor pastoralists who rely on the animals for their survival are also affected.
Modifies a noun
- community: From the inner cities of Britain to the pastoralist communities of Kenya, gun culture is on the increase.
- area: Pastoralist areas also harbor epizootic diseases which hinder livestock export trade at national levels under current WTO/SPS rules.
- group: In North Africa small stock are raised by pastoralist groups, usually based on the desert edge.
- people: The modern world is one created by the Indo-European pastoralist peoples who, having acquired lactose tolerance, domesticated the horse and discovered metallurgy.
- family: I have just returned from areas where over 70 % of the cattle owned by pastoralist families have died.
- education: Pastoralist education in general and mobile schools in particular have suffered from very low government spending.
Preposition: in
country: FAO is appealing for $ 11.4 million to provide agricultural inputs and assist pastoralists in the affected countries.

