NOMADISM: A thousands years old tradition

 Nomads are indigenous people who move strategically in a given habitat upon availability of food

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 Until about 8,000 years ago, all humans on Earth were hunters and foragers, although nowaday these communities form a minority group among nomads.

Most of them are pastoralists, born in Neolithic times at environments unfavorable to farming, who heavily depend on their herds and usually combine herding practices with trading, cultivation, hunting and gathering.

Traditionally, nomadic peoples have been classified into three general categories: hunters-gatherers, pastoralists  and itinerants.

To this triple scheme can be added a fourth category of indigenous peoples: those ones engaged into shifting cultivation. 

Guiding principles and partnership

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