shareherding

Noun

shareherding (uncountable)

1. The practice by which one herder cares for the livestock of another, in return for a percentage of the profits or offspring.
   • Describing the shareherding contracts by which young men acquired the wherewithal to marry, he asserted that, "consequently, even in the homes of the poorest New Mexicans, there is never a dearth of the means to satisfy the necessities of life and even to afford the comfort and luxuries of the...1991, Pobladores: Hispanic Americans of the Ute Frontier, page 175
   • Although the new shareherding arrangements are generally inequitable, and are disliked by herders, they are accepted because the alternative - exclusion from the pastoral economy and society - is even less attractive.1992, Idriss Jazairy, Mohiuddin Alamgir, John Stanier, The State of World Rural Poverty, →ISBN