How do pastoral families combine livestock herds with other livelihood security means to survive? The case of the Ferlo area in Senegal

Pastoralism

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Table 3 Distribution (in number) of 508 surveyed settlements within three identified groups and distribution (in percentage) of settlements of a group within modalities of each variable used for multivariate analyses

Settlement groups	A	B	C	Total
	Small herds	Medium herds	Largest herds
No. of settlements in each group	207	142	159	508
No. of households
1 or 2	74	69	31	59
3 or 4	26	31	36	31
5 and more	0	0	32	10
No. of cattle
None	0	27	0	7
< 20	44	30	13	30
20 to 50	56	28	9	34
> 50	0	15	77	29
No. of small ruminants
20 to 100	58	54	13	43
> 100	42	46	87	57
Crops
Yes^a	0	82	4	24
Non-farming activities
Yes^a	34	27	33	32
Long-distance mobility
Yes^a	29	24	31	29