Sahel

:See also Sahel, Tunisia, a region of eastern Tunisia.

Transhumance

Traditionally, most of the people in the Sahel have been semi-nomads, farming and raising cattle

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in a system of transhumance, which is probably the most sustainable way of utilizing the Sahel. The difference between the dry north with higher levels of soil-nutrients and the wetter south is utilized so that the herds graze on high quality feed in the North during the wet season, and trek several hundred kilometers down to the south, to graze on more abundant, but less nutritious feed during the dry period.

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