Resources Tagged: Pastoral Systems

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  1. 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...
    Agroforestry Systems Rainwater Harvesting Soil Fertility Pastoral Systems Conservation Agric... Sustainable Land M... Soil Health AccessAgriculture Soil Conservation Water Conservation

  2. Moving Herds, Moving Markets: Making Markets Work for African Pastoralists

    2013-01-20 Drawing on 15 cases from nine countries this books offers some solutions to the huge challenges pastoralists encounter in trying to sell what they produce. With liberal use of tables, diagrams and illustrations, it documents impacts, good practices and lessons in the marketing of pastoralist...
    East Africa West Africa Herders Economic Development Pastoral Systems Pastoralist East Africa West Africa

  3. 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.
    Pastoral Systems Sheep Industry Grazing Sheep

  4. 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...
    Pastoral Systems Trees Shrubs Useful Tree Tree crops Multipurpose trees Multipurpose Shrubs Ethiopia East Africa

  5. 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.
    Useful Tree Pastoral Systems Agricultural Manag... Tanzania Tree crops Multipurpose trees Multipurpose Shrubs East Africa

  6. 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

  7. 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...
    Pastoral Systems Range Management

  8. 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....
    Pastoral Systems Tree identification Sustainable Forest... Tree crops Multipurpose trees Multipurpose Shrubs East Africa

  9. Ambivalence and Contradiction A Review of the Policy Environment in Tanzania in Relation to Pastoralism

    This publication reviews the policies and laws including those dealing with overall national development, those specific for the livestock sector, those dealing with access to pastoral resources, those dealing with conservation of wildlife and other natural resources, and those dealing with...
    Pastoral Systems Tanzania Sustainable Land Use

  10. 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...
    Climate Change Pastoralism Pastoral Systems