I tend to believe that cattle keepers are more vulnerable to climate change. Cattle keeping is strongly limited by certain rainfall pattern, the need of suitable cattle grazing areas force cattle keeper to act more aggressively towards other groups occupying suitable cattle grazing areas.
I don't think we have data on camels, but will double-check. We can compare cattle headers vs farmers vs urban dwellers though, and observe their reactions to climate stress. In fact, we are working on this now in the context of floods.
I will answer comparing wanderer rearers with sedentary farmers or rearers. Due to the constraints faced by wanderers, firstly, lack of adequate education and interaction with civilization, they are more prone to violence, taking Nigeria situation as a reference. But since data on the root cause of the many violent problems associated with this set of people is not available, the above assessment can be best adjudged as personal opinion
Osere you did not grasp what I was meaning. "Wanderers" with cattle are much more constraint by needs of cattle than "wanderers" with camels. Camel "wanderes" if they found their original grazing areas occupied or unsuitable can move to other areas (unoccupied because far off from water sources), cattle "wanderers" once they found their traditional grazing area occupied will not have this freedom and they be obliged to solve the issue with any mean available (violence) or get rid of their cattle.
Okay, then. Since we don't have camel wanderer in my locality, I don't think I have enough information on their behaviour to provide an answer. But I now get the point
Extremely sorry, I have no experience about camel rearing and their keeper, that is why, sorry to make comments about this matte.
Is it fair to say that camels have increased resilience to rainfall variability on the basis of increased range of migration? But are they living in more remote areas because they can operate in more arid areas? Analysis of the broader livelihood issues is a framework that would help here.
Good point on causation and correlation. The historical backdrop is important too as the case in Darfur illustrates. Camel herders were fewer in number during the colonial period and did not get the allocation of land tenure and chieftaincy that the more numerous cattle herders did. This grievance made them more open to manipulation in the counter-insurgency strategy of 2003 and explains, in part, their particular role in the violence that has occurred since then.
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