Traditional livestock rearing systems in grasslands evolved in response to social, climatic, vegetative and technological conditions that existed scores, hundreds, or in some cases thousands of years ago. Many of these systems involve vertical transhumance where flocks and herds are moved up elevation gradients for summer pasturage or horizontal transhumance in which livestock migrate across greater distances in response to regional rainfall patterns and
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Library ResourceDocuments et rapports de conférencenovembre, 2015Inde, Asie méridionale
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Library ResourceDocuments et rapports de conférencenovembre, 2015Global
Pastoralists have a unique relationship of mutual dependency with their livestock and their environment; the uniqueness of this relationship distinguishes them from other livestock keepers. They depend highly on the environment where they develop their livelihood, that they make productive through highly adapted animals, but at the same time the quality of this environment depends on how well they take care of it, which in turns depends on complex social regulations and on large-scale mobility. The way they keep their animals forms part of their daily life and of a complex culture.
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Library ResourceDocuments et rapports de conférencemars, 2015Éthiopie, Afrique, Afrique orientale
The pastoral and agro-pastoral areas of Ethiopia cover around 65% of the country’s surface area. Rangeland resources are managed under collective common property arrangements, which are increasingly coming under pressure from both internal and external forces of change including alternative, but not necessarily ‘appropriate’, land uses.
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Library ResourceDocuments et rapports de conférencejuillet, 2015Botswana, Afrique, Afrique australe
Differences in resource endowment between regions influence the technologies used in livestock production and cause location-specific effects on production and technical change. Access to
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Agriculture remains vital to the economy of most African countries and its development
has significant implications for food security and poverty reduction in the region. Increase
in agricultural production over the past decades has mainly been due to land area expansion,
with very little change in production techniques and limited improvement in yields.
Currently one in four people remains malnourished in Africa. CSA integrates all three dimensions of sustainable development and is aimed at (1)
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The paper tries to provide answers to questions on the status of farm/family forestry in Africa
in terms of opportunities and challenges, their contribution to economic development and
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