{"id":"https://openalex.org/W7224759649","doi":"https://doi.org/10.68258/ajapfs.65798","title":"Pastoral Mobility as Political Bargaining: Seasonal Grazing Corridors, Local Agreements and Recurrent Violence in South Sudan","display_name":"Pastoral Mobility as Political Bargaining: Seasonal Grazing Corridors, Local Agreements and Recurrent Violence in South Sudan","publication_year":2026,"publication_date":"2026-10-30","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W7224759649","doi":"https://doi.org/10.68258/ajapfs.65798"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.68258/ajapfs.65798","doi":"https://doi.org/10.68258/ajapfs.65798","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.68258/ajapfs.65798","pdf_url":"https://parj.africa/ajapfs/article/download/pastoral-mobility-as-political-bargaining-seasonal-grazing-corri/pdf","source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"African Journal of Agricultural Policy and Food Security","raw_type":"journal-article"},"volume":null,"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":true,"oa_status":"gold","oa_url":"https://parj.africa/ajapfs/article/download/pastoral-mobility-as-political-bargaining-seasonal-grazing-corri/pdf","any_repository_has_fulltext":null},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5153981461","display_name":"PARJ Editorial Office","orcid":null,"observed_orcids":[]},"institutions":[],"countries":[],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"PARJ Editorial Office","raw_affiliation_strings":[],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5160212706","display_name":"Prof. Abraham Kuol Nyuon","orcid":null,"observed_orcids":[]},"institutions":[],"countries":[],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Abraham Kuol Nyuon","raw_affiliation_strings":[],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":0,"institutions_distinct_count":0,"corresponding_author_ids":[],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":0.0,"has_fulltext":true,"cited_by_count":0,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.86774344,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":false},"cited_by_percentile_year":null,"biblio":{"volume":"27","issue":"3","first_page":null,"last_page":null},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12467","display_name":"Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology","score":0.9359999895095825,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2308","display_name":"Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/23","display_name":"Environmental Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12467","display_name":"Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology","score":0.9359999895095825,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2308","display_name":"Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/23","display_name":"Environmental Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11755","display_name":"Transboundary Water Resource Management","score":0.014100000262260437,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3312","display_name":"Sociology and Political Science"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12263","display_name":"Peacebuilding and International Security","score":0.013399999588727951,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3312","display_name":"Sociology and Political Science"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/mobile-pastoralism","display_name":"pastoral mobility","score":0.7960000038146973},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/political-negotiation","display_name":"political negotiation","score":0.8410000205039978},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/cattle-ownership","display_name":"cattle ownership","score":0.6200000047683716},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/customary-authority","display_name":"customary authority","score":0.5759999752044678},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/local-agreements","display_name":"local agreements","score":0.5550000071525574},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/peacebuilding","display_name":"peacebuilding","score":0.6299999952316284},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/south-sudan","display_name":"South Sudan","score":0.5139999985694885}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C94625758","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7163","display_name":"Politics","level":2,"score":0.6169000267982483},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C205649164","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1071","display_name":"Geography","level":0,"score":0.5924999713897705},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C118518473","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11451","display_name":"Agriculture","level":2,"score":0.4909999966621399},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C203663800","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q848979","display_name":"Citizen journalism","level":2,"score":0.48980000615119934},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C112964050","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103459","display_name":"Livestock","level":2,"score":0.4837999939918518},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C204036174","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q909380","display_name":"Stock (firearms)","level":2,"score":0.4724999964237213},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C17744445","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36442","display_name":"Political science","level":0,"score":0.4343999922275543},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2781395907","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2632158","display_name":"Peacebuilding","level":2,"score":0.40070000290870667},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C39896193","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q380344","display_name":"Descriptive statistics","level":2,"score":0.400299996137619},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C17616946","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9056738","display_name":"Pastoralism","level":3,"score":0.34630000591278076},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2777904157","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3239189","display_name":"Grazing","level":2,"score":0.3433000147342682},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C45355965","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1643441","display_name":"Socioeconomics","level":1,"score":0.34150001406669617},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C47768531","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1127188","display_name":"Development economics","level":1,"score":0.3280999958515167},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C136264566","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q159810","display_name":"Economy","level":1,"score":0.326200008392334},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C4792198","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1165944","display_name":"Land use","level":2,"score":0.3172999918460846},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2781316041","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1230584","display_name":"Diversity (politics)","level":2,"score":0.31630000472068787},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C132651083","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7942","display_name":"Climate change","level":2,"score":0.31520000100135803},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C50522688","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189833","display_name":"Economic growth","level":1,"score":0.311599999666214},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C555826173","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7174","display_name":"Democracy","level":3,"score":0.3052999973297119},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2992441151","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17106442","display_name":"Political stability","level":3,"score":0.30480000376701355},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C502990516","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3395383","display_name":"Agricultural land","level":3,"score":0.30410000681877136},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2778053677","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30121","display_name":"Pasture","level":2,"score":0.302700012922287},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2777162435","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3399774","display_name":"Political violence","level":3,"score":0.30090001225471497},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C199728807","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2578557","display_name":"Equity (law)","level":2,"score":0.288100004196167},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C177605951","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1484503","display_name":"Herding","level":2,"score":0.2824999988079071},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C110269972","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q184872","display_name":"Recreation","level":2,"score":0.2757999897003174},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2775907854","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7444961","display_name":"Security forces","level":3,"score":0.2752000093460083},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C39389867","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q380767","display_name":"Corporate governance","level":2,"score":0.27459999918937683},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C549605437","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1229911","display_name":"Food security","level":3,"score":0.27300000190734863},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C59785166","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1554076","display_name":"Political ecology","level":3,"score":0.2639000117778778},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C203133693","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7283","display_name":"Terrorism","level":2,"score":0.2630999982357025},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2992730755","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55603353","display_name":"Agricultural development","level":3,"score":0.25839999318122864},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C107826830","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q929380","display_name":"Environmental resource management","level":1,"score":0.25760000944137573},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C91375879","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15473274","display_name":"Environmental planning","level":1,"score":0.25130000710487366}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.68258/ajapfs.65798","doi":"https://doi.org/10.68258/ajapfs.65798","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.68258/ajapfs.65798","pdf_url":"https://parj.africa/ajapfs/article/download/pastoral-mobility-as-political-bargaining-seasonal-grazing-corri/pdf","source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"African Journal of Agricultural Policy and Food Security","raw_type":"journal-article"}],"best_oa_location":{"id":"doi:10.68258/ajapfs.65798","doi":"https://doi.org/10.68258/ajapfs.65798","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.68258/ajapfs.65798","pdf_url":"https://parj.africa/ajapfs/article/download/pastoral-mobility-as-political-bargaining-seasonal-grazing-corri/pdf","source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"African Journal of Agricultural Policy and Food Security","raw_type":"journal-article"},"sustainable_development_goals":[{"score":0.9595999717712402,"display_name":"Peace, justice, and strong institutions","id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/16"},{"score":0.4390000104904175,"display_name":"Life on land","id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/15"}],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"pdf":true,"grobid_xml":true},"content_urls":{"pdf":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W7224759649.pdf","grobid_xml":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W7224759649.grobid-xml"},"referenced_works_count":0,"referenced_works":[],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W4323309843","https://openalex.org/W4393200041","https://openalex.org/W2791590999","https://openalex.org/W3084124034","https://openalex.org/W791367098","https://openalex.org/W4391021854","https://openalex.org/W7051797207","https://openalex.org/W2922048554","https://openalex.org/W2521557367","https://openalex.org/W4411536814"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Background:":[0],"Seasonal":[1],"pastoral":[2],"migration":[3],"is":[4,23,115],"often":[5],"depicted":[6],"as":[7],"an":[8,83,108],"ecological":[9],"response":[10],"to":[11,103],"fluctuating":[12],"pasture":[13],"and":[14,41,49,67,82,131],"water":[15],"availability.":[16],"Objective:":[17],"This":[18],"article":[19],"argues":[20],"that":[21],"mobility":[22],"also":[24],"a":[25,68,91],"negotiated":[26],"political":[27],"arrangement":[28],"in":[29,93,101,106,133],"which":[30],"customary":[31],"authorities,":[32],"cattle":[33,96],"owners,":[34],"farming":[35],"communities,":[36],"armed":[37],"youth,":[38],"local":[39,139],"administrators":[40],"peacebuilding":[42],"institutions":[43],"bargain":[44],"over":[45],"access,":[46],"compensation,":[47],"security":[48],"jurisdiction.":[50],"Methods:":[51],"Drawing":[52],"on":[53],"FAOSTAT":[54],"livestock":[55],"estimates,":[56],"public":[57],"reporting":[58],"by":[59],"UNMISS,":[60],"the":[61,73,124,136],"United":[62],"Nations":[63],"Climate":[64],"Security":[65],"Mechanism,":[66],"2026":[69],"PAX":[70],"qualitative":[71],"report,":[72],"analysis":[74],"combines":[75],"reproducible":[76],"descriptive":[77],"statistics":[78],"with":[79],"process":[80],"tracing":[81],"explicitly":[84],"prospective":[85],"quantitative":[86],"model.":[87],"Results:":[88],"Estimates":[89],"indicate":[90],"rise":[92],"South":[94],"Sudan":[95],"stock":[97],"from":[98],"11.757":[99],"million":[100,105],"2012":[102],"14.283":[104],"2024,":[107],"approximate":[109],"21.5%":[110],"increase;":[111],"this":[112],"national-level":[113],"change":[114],"not":[116],"evidence":[117],"of":[118,123,138],"increased":[119],"conflict.":[120],"Conclusion:":[121],"Accounts":[122],"Marial":[125],"Bai":[126],"Agreement,":[127],"Kidepo":[128],"Valley":[129],"consultations":[130],"tensions":[132],"Lainya":[134],"show":[135],"diversity":[137],"bargaining":[140],"arrangements.":[141]},"counts_by_year":[],"updated_date":"2026-11-03T10:50:19.383937","created_date":"2026-10-31T00:00:00"}