Sustainable Land Management In Rangeland And Grasslands

Author : Onyango, V., Masumbuko, B., Somda, J., Nianogo, A., Davies, J.
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789251365922

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Sustainable land management in rangeland and grasslands by Onyango, V., Masumbuko, B., Somda, J., Nianogo, A., Davies, J. Pdf

This participatory grassland and rangeland assessment (PRAGA) methodology was developed for the assessment of rangelands and grasslands in selected project countries. It was developed through the project 'Participatory assessment of land degradation and sustainable land management in grassland and pastoral systems', financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and executed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The methodology was piloted in five countries – Burkina Faso, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Niger and Uruguay – to test its effectiveness and value. Necessary revisions were made to the methodology, based on lessons learned from its application. This report documents the good practices of rangeland management as a way to inform decisions on rangeland management; and raise awareness about the importance of locally identified management practices. It highlights the fact that these rangeland management practices do not necessarily align with practices as defined by scientists/ecologists. The target audience of this working paper includes decision-makers, land managers, other land users, and scientists.

Author : Victor Squires,Limin Hua,Degang Zhang,Guolin Li
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789048196227

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Towards Sustainable Use of Rangelands in North-West China by Victor Squires,Limin Hua,Degang Zhang,Guolin Li Pdf

Towards Sustainable Use of Rangelands in China’s North West is based on the program of the International Conference Implementing GEF Objectives in a Systems Framework held in Lanzhou, Gansu, China in October 2008. This collection reviews the extent of resource debasement in China’s pastoral zones and offers solutions for their sustainable use. The five parts deal with ran- lands, and the people who manage them, and assess prospects for implementation of more sustainable rangeland/livestock production systems. Topics include Livestock husbandry development and agro-pastoral integration in Gansu and Xinjiang; Ecological restoration and control of rangeland degradation. Despite widespread degradation, the articles reveal the approaches that are likely to lead to recovery of these rangelands and better livelihoods for the local herders and farmers. Two chapters are devoted to the achievement of global environmental objectives. Carbon sequestration and biodiversity conservation in mountain grasslands are just a few of the covered subjects. This portion of the book pays special attention to the successful results in Gansu and Xinjiang – major regions of China’s pastoral lands. The final division addresses measures to improve the profitability and susta- ability of herding and farming in the pastoral areas of north-west China There are fifteen chapters on subjects that include: Livestock management, Rangeland management interventions, Agro-pastoral integration, Improved animal husbandry practices as a basis for profitability. Land tenure and access, Environmental education, Ecological Restoration and New Management approaches for China’s northwest pastoral areas.

Author : Pedro M. Herrera,Jonathan Davies,Pablo Manzano Baena
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317665168

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The Governance of Rangelands by Pedro M. Herrera,Jonathan Davies,Pablo Manzano Baena Pdf

Rangelands are large natural landscapes that can include grasslands, shrublands, savannahs and woodlands. They are greatly influenced by, and often dependent on, the action of herbivores. In the majority of rangelands the dominant herbivores are found in domestic herds that are managed by mobile pastoralists. Most pastoralists manage their rangelands communally, benefitting from the greater flexibility and seasonal resource access that common property regimes can offer. As this book shows, this creates a major challenge for governance and institutions. This work improves our understanding of the importance of governance, how it can be strengthened and the principles that underpin good governance, in order to prevent degradation of rangelands and ensure their sustainability. It describes the nature of governance at different levels: community governance, state governance, international governance, and the unique features of rangelands that demand collective action (issues of scale, ecological disequilibrium and seasonality). A series of country case studies is presented, drawn from a wide spectrum of examples from Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, Europe and North America. These provide contrasting lessons which are summarised to promote improved governance of rangelands and pastoralist livelihoods.

Author : Sharpe, N., Mwangi, P., Isakov, A., Onyango, V.
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251360224

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Application of the participatory rangeland and grassland assessment (PRAGA) methodology in Kyrgyzstan by Sharpe, N., Mwangi, P., Isakov, A., Onyango, V. Pdf

As rangelands support one-seventh of the world’s population and occupy one-third of its land area, there is increasing focus on their economic, environmental and nutritional roles together with a growing understanding of their potential in climatic regulatory systems and biodiversity conservation. However, rangelands and grasslands are complex, dynamic systems, which make assessment and management difficult given the many interacting biophysical elements, drivers and objectives of those that use them. Facilitating and developing tools to monitor rangeland and grassland complexity and clearly demonstrate how management influences ecosystem processes is an important component of improving rangeland management practices, r egulatory systems and economic development. The project “Participatory assessment of land degradation and sustainable land management in grassland and pastoral systems”, funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), was developed with the primary objective of strengthening the capacity of local and national stakeholders in pastoral and agropastoral areas comprising of grasslands and rangelands to assess land degradation (LD) and make informed decisions to promote sustainable land management (SLM) in a way that preserves the diverse ecosystem goods and services provided by rangelands and grasslands . This report represents a synthesis of activities in development and testing of the participatory rangeland and grassland (PRAGA) methodology in Kyrgyzstan, including a national and regional baseline review, large-scale assessment & remote sensing, participatory mapping and indicator selection, field assessment results and validation workshops held to verify data and resulting conclusions that feed into next steps and technical and policy recommendations.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,International Union for Conservation of Nature
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789251365823

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Participatory rangeland and grassland assessment (PRAGA) methodology by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,International Union for Conservation of Nature Pdf

This participatory grassland and rangeland assessment (PRAGA) methodology was developed for the assessment of rangelands and grasslands in selected project countries. It was developed through the project “Participatory assessment of land degradation and sustainable land management in grassland and pastoral systems”, financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and executed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The methodology was piloted in five countries – Burkina Faso, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Niger and Uruguay – to test its effectiveness and value. Necessary revisions were made to the methodology, based on lessons learned from its application. This document contains background information on global grasslands and rangelands and describes the need and the guiding principle for rangeland health assessments and practical guidance on how to conduct cost-effective assessment. It is divided into two parts: Part I: Background information on grasslands and rangelands Part II: Guidance for the preparation, assessment and monitoring of grasslands and rangelands at the local level The methodology has been designed with enough flexibility to adapted to specific contexts and countries along the nine steps laid out in the document.

Author : New Pasture and Grazing Technologies Project (Canada),Saskatchewan. Agriculture Development Fund
Publisher : [Regina] : Saskatchewan Agriculture Development Fund
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Range management
ISBN : CORNELL:31924062809664

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Managing Saskatchewan Rangeland by New Pasture and Grazing Technologies Project (Canada),Saskatchewan. Agriculture Development Fund Pdf

Handbook to improve the quality and efficiency of rangeland resource management. The manual covers a history of grazing and its place in the ecology of the region; describes the natural vegetation zones and range plants and grasses; and gives principles and concepts of the proper use of grazing land, methods of evaluating range land for grazing, livestock behaviour, grazing systems, fencing, and improvements. A glossary is included.

Author : David D. Briske
Publisher : Springer
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319467092

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Rangeland Systems by David D. Briske Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. This book provides an unprecedented synthesis of the current status of scientific and management knowledge regarding global rangelands and the major challenges that confront them. It has been organized around three major themes. The first summarizes the conceptual advances that have occurred in the rangeland profession. The second addresses the implications of these conceptual advances to management and policy. The third assesses several major challenges confronting global rangelands in the 21st century. This book will compliment applied range management textbooks by describing the conceptual foundation on which the rangeland profession is based. It has been written to be accessible to a broad audience, including ecosystem managers, educators, students and policy makers. The content is founded on the collective experience, knowledge and commitment of 80 authors who have worked in rangelands throughout the world. Their collective contributions indicate that a more comprehensive framework is necessary to address the complex challenges confronting global rangelands. Rangelands represent adaptive social-ecological systems, in which societal values, organizations and capacities are of equal importance to, and interact with, those of ecological processes. A more comprehensive framework for rangeland systems may enable management agencies, and educational, research and policy making organizations to more effectively assess complex problems and develop appropriate solutions.

Author : Abad Chabbi,Gianni Bellocchi
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783039282227

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Grassland Management for Sustainable Agroecosystems by Abad Chabbi,Gianni Bellocchi Pdf

This book is a remarkable work that brings together the most recent international research on grassland management, covering a broad range of topics and geographical areas. The different contributions explore the complex relationships between landscape, climate features, and soil fertility with the support of observational data and modeling. Clearly, this is a wide and multifaceted area of research that opens up new prospects for the management of a biome, which should no longer be considered only as a feed resource for domestic herbivore farming, but also—and above all—as a source of ecosystem services to society and a contributor to the sustainability of agriculture. Textbooks like this positively demonstrate the importance and significance of how grassland science, when viewed in this way, can make tangible the progress in understanding the complexity of grassland management and its current and future challenges.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789292544164

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Making Grasslands Sustainable in Mongolia by Asian Development Bank Pdf

Payments for environmental services (PES) are a potential mechanism to provide incentives for sustainable management of grasslands and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. PES is not widely practiced in Mongolia, but has been included in the Green Development Strategy of the government. This paper reviews 50 PES schemes operating in grasslands and other grazing lands globally, including Mongolia. It discusses key issues related to the design of PES schemes in Mongolian grasslands, including potential benefits, risks, constraints, and trade-offs.

Author : Johan T. du Toit,Richard Kock,James Deutsch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781444317107

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Wild Rangelands by Johan T. du Toit,Richard Kock,James Deutsch Pdf

Rangeland ecosystems which include unimproved grasslands,shrublands, savannas and semi-deserts, support half of theworld’s livestock, while also providing habitats for some ofthe most charismatic of wildlife species. This book examines thepressures on rangeland ecosystems worldwide from human land use,over-hunting, and subsistence and commercial farming of livestockand crops. Leading experts have pooled their experiences from allcontinents to cover the ecological, sociological, political,veterinary, and economic aspects of rangeland management today. This book provides practitioners and students ofrangeland management and wildland conservation with a diversity ofperspectives on a central question: can rangelands be wildlands? The first book to examine rangelands from a conservationperspective Emphasizes the balance between the needs of people andlivestock, and wildlife Written by an international team of experts covering allgeographical regions Examines ecological, sociological, political, veterinary, andeconomic aspects of rangeland management and wildland conservation,providing a diversity of perspectives not seen before in a singlevolume

Author : P. J. Joss,P. W. Lynch,O. B. Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521309360

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Rangelands: A Resource Under Siege by P. J. Joss,P. W. Lynch,O. B. Williams Pdf

This volume comprises the proceedings of the Second International Rangelands Congress held in Adelaide, Australia in May 1984, and includes some 350 contributions drawn from 43 different countries. The Congress addressed the problem of the conflict between land-users and the degradation of this valuable resource. Some 40% of the Earth's land surface is and or alpine and therefore unsuitable for agricultural cultivation. Collectively, these lands are known as rangelands and in their natural state they constitute a habitat for grazing animals, both domestic and wild. Despite their low productivity, rangelands have been used for thousands of years as a source of food and fibre, but other uses such as mining, tourism, recreation and conservation are exerting increasing demands. The result is often conflict between land-users and degradation of the resource.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Grasses
ISBN : 0778528413

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Range Plant Communities and Range Health Assessment Guidelines for the Dry Mixedgrass Natural Subregion of Alberta by Anonim Pdf

Author : Victor R. Squires,Jürgen Dengler,Limin Hua,Haiying Feng
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781351652209

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Grasslands of the World by Victor R. Squires,Jürgen Dengler,Limin Hua,Haiying Feng Pdf

This book begins with a brief account of the extraordinary sequence of events that led to emergence of grasslands as major vegetation formations that now occupy some of the driest and hottest and the highest and coldest on earth as well as vast steppes and prairies in more temperate climes. It is the story of grasses successfully competing with forests and woodlands, aided and abetted by grazing herbivores and by humans and their use of fire as a tool. It is a story of adaptation to changing climates and the changing biophysical environments. A major focus of the book is the Palaearctic biogeographic realm that extends over some 45 million km2 and thus more than 1/3 of the terrestrial ice-free surface on Earth. It comprises extensive grasslands of different types and origin, which can be subdivided into (1) natural grasslands with (1a) steppes (climatogenic in dry climates), (1b) arctic-alpine grasslands (climatogenic in cold climates) and (1c) azonal and extrazonal grasslands (pedogenic and topogenic) as well as (2) secondary grasslands created and sustained by human activities, such as livestock grazing, mowing or burning. Grasslands of the Palaearctic do not only form a major basis for the agriculture of the region and thus its food supply, but are also crucial for other ecosystem services and host a supra proportional part of the realm’s plant and animal diversity. To reflect that suitability of grasslands for biodiversity strongly depends on their state, we apply the term High Nature Value grassland to those natural grasslands that are not degraded (in good state) and those secondary grasslands that are not intensified (semi-natural). The situation in a variety of countries where grasslands are evolving under the influence of global climate change is also considered. Case studies are presented on Southern Africa, Eastern Africa, India, China, South America, North America and Australia. The concluding chapter examines a set of themes arising from the chapters that make up the bulk of this book. The following provide a focus: recent history of grassland biomes – brief recap of current thinking and recent trends with special reference to dry grasslands in the Palearctic regions; the current status of grasslands and germplasm resources (biodiversity) – an overview; management systems that ensure sustainability; how to recover degraded grasslands; socio-economic issues and considerations in grassland management; the impacts of environmental problems in grasslands such as future climate change and intensification and the problems/prospects facing pastoralists and other grassland-based livestock producers.

Author : Onyango, V., Davies, J., Sharpe, N., Maiga, S.I., Ogali, C., Perez-Rocha, J., Isakov, A.
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789251348055

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Land degradation neutrality by Onyango, V., Davies, J., Sharpe, N., Maiga, S.I., Ogali, C., Perez-Rocha, J., Isakov, A. Pdf

In rangelands and grasslands, land degradation has an immediate and local impact by disrupting ecosystems from functioning, threatening livelihoods and negatively affecting social cohesion. It also threatens productivity while dovetailing with the threats of climate change in these ecologically fragile areas. The understanding of land degradation in rangelands and grasslands is weak, which is attributed to a lack of robust data and a misunderstanding of management objectives. The day-to-day management of land by pastoral communities is intricately linked to local and traditional knowledge that needs to be taken into account when monitoring the health of ecosystems and designing management interventions. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 15 Life on land includes Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) as a target, which requires that the process of degradation is halted and reversed. This publication presents a rationale for participatory approaches to achieve LDN in pastoral areas while showing how this can be achieved using the Participatory Rangelands and Grasslands Assessment (PRAGA) that has been piloted in Kenya, the Niger, Burkina Faso, Uruguay and Kyrgyzstan.

Author : Claire Mulcock,Alastair Ensor,Rural Futures Trust,MAF Policy (N.Z.),New Zealand. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Grasslands
ISBN : 0478079826

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Facts at Their Fingertips by Claire Mulcock,Alastair Ensor,Rural Futures Trust,MAF Policy (N.Z.),New Zealand. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Pdf