Its traditional economy was based on agriculture, including olives, potatoes, cereals, cherries, forest products, cork, and goat herding.
The Zuider Zee is still the world's biggest successful planetary engineering project, but the Sahara Desert seems to have been caused by goat herding.
Severe droughts hit the Sahel region in 1973 and 1985, decimating the Tuareg population around Timbuktu who relied on goat herding.
The company should seek a different industry such as goat herding where it will do less harm on society.
It's tempting, but I plump for something perhaps equally bizarre: goat herding.
The majority of the population find employment either in fishing, goat herding or helping to run one of the island's four tavernas.
It is a centre for traditional crafts, goat herding and equestrian sports, and hosts a large regional horse festival every year.
Historically a goat herding and subsistence farming people, the Kalash are moving towards a cash-based economy whereas previously wealth was measured in livestock and crops.
Other scenes include goat herding, ship building, harvesting scenes, sailing, netting of birds, etc.
There, he took up goat herding, a common occupation in Corsica.