Answer:
(i)
In Africa, where over half of the world's pastoral population lives, even today
22 million Africans depend on some forms of pastoral activity for their
livelihood.
(ii) They include communities like Bedouins, Berbers, Maasai, Somali, Boran
and Turkana.
(iii) Most of them now live in the semi-arid grasslands or
arid deserts where rainfed agriculture is difficult.
(iv) They raise cattle, camels, goats, sheep and donkeys;
and they sell milk, meat, animal skin and wool.
(v) Some of them also earn through trade and transport,
others combine pastoral activity with agriculture, still others do a variety of
odd jobs to supplement their meagre and uncertain earnings from pastoralism.
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