Resources Tagged: Pastoral Systems

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  1. Useful Trees and Shrubs for Uganda: Identification, Propagation and Management for Agricultural and Pastoral Communities

    1995-01-01 The major aims of these handbooks are to document the useful tree and shrub species of the region and to provide information to subject-matter specialist, extension workers, institutions and farmers on species that have production and conservation potential for small-scale farmers in the region....
    Sustainable Forest... Tree identification Pastoral Systems Multipurpose Shrubs Multipurpose trees Tree crops East Africa

  2. Pastoral Politics Shepherds, Bureaucrats and Conservation in the Western Himalaya

    Vasant Saberwal explores the origins of the alarmist rhetoric on land degradation in the western Himalaya, which he finds to be unsubstantiated according to empirical evidence and ecological theory.
    Sheep Grazing Sheep Industry Pastoral Systems

  3. Useful Trees and Shrubs for Ethiopia: Identification, Propagation, and Management for Agricultural and Pastoral Communities

    One of the main aims of this book is to benefit the rural people of Ethiopia by encouraging them to grow more trees and shrubs of a wider variety of species than they have up to now. It provides information on a selection of useful tree and shrub species for the range of agroclimatic conditions...
    Useful Tree Shrubs Trees Pastoral Systems Ethiopia Multipurpose Shrubs Multipurpose trees Tree crops East Africa

  4. Useful Trees and Shrubs for Tanzania: Identification, Propagation, and Management for Agricultural and Pastoral Communities

    1994-01-01 This handbook was published with the hope that it will be widely used by extension, education and research institutions in order to foster interest in the growing and management of a wider range of tree and shrub species as part of the development of sustainable land-use systems in Tanzania.
    Tanzania Agricultural Manag... Pastoral Systems Useful Tree Multipurpose Shrubs Multipurpose trees Tree crops East Africa

  5. Legislators and Livestock: Pastoralist Parliamentary Groups in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda

    This report looks at the potential of specialist groupings of Members of Parliament for promoting pastoral development and overcoming pastoral poverty and vulnerability in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda. The main challenges in pastoral development are related to policy and governance: conflicts and...
    Pastoral Systems

  6. Living with uncertainty: new directions for pastoral development in Africa

    The last few years have seen a major rethinking of some of the hallowed assumptions of range ecology and range management practice. This book examines the management of policy implications of this new ecological thinking for pastoral development in dryland areas. With examples drawn from all over...
    Range Management Pastoral Systems

  7. Introduction to Sustainable Land Management - video

    Access Agriculture Training Video Introduction to sustainable land management practices which have a proven track record in Africa. They can help control land degradation and improve production for small scale farmers, despite the challenges of climate change. Available languages Bemba Chitonga...
    Soil Conservation Water Conservation AccessAgriculture Soil Health Sustainable Land M... Conservation Agric... Pastoral Systems Soil Fertility Rainwater Harvesting Agroforestry Systems

  8. Browsing on Fences Pastoral Land Rights, Livelihoods and Adaptation to Climate Change

    This publication brings together the inputs made by over 120 participants in a web-based forum organised in 2006 and managed by the International Land Coalition on pastoral land rights. The paper has been further enriched with material from a number of projects from around the world and the...
    Pastoral Systems Pastoralism Climate Change

  9. Rethinking Range Ecology: Implications For Rangeland Management In Africa

    1990-01-01 The papers reviewed here pose a number of difficult questions regarding the precision with which carrying capacity can be estimated, current definitions of the concept and its relevance to certain dry African environments. They also critically examine the concept of rangeland degradation and...
    Range Management Pastoral Systems