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Acknowledgements

We thank Saverio Krätli, Michele Nori and Dennis Rodgers for helpful comments on an earlier version of this introduction. We acknowledge support from the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) North–South: Research Partnerships for Mitigating Syndromes of Global Change, co-funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). Chinwe Ifejika Speranza acknowledges support from the Volkswagen Foundation.

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Hagmann, T., Ifejika Speranza, C. New Avenues for Pastoral Development in sub-Saharan Africa. Eur J Dev Res 22, 593–604 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1057/ejdr.2010.46

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