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The ability to address land degradation and biodiversity loss while maintaining the production of plant and animal products is a key global challenge.
The ability to address land degradation and biodiversity loss while maintaining the production of plant and animal products is a key global challenge.
Priorities for protecting ecosystem services must be identified to ensure future human well-being.
The ability to address land degradation and biodiversity loss while maintaining the production of plant and animal products is a key global challenge.
Formal land titles are rare in pastoral communities around the world. In the past, this presented hardly any problems, since pastoral land was seen as of little use by most outsiders.
Livestock are kept for a wide range of purposes in Africa, and there is considerable diversity in animal husbandry. Among the most important advantages in keeping animals is their contribution to maintaining and even improving soil fertility.
The former Soviet Central Asian republics have undergone de-intensification of their livestock sectors, resulting in an increased reliance on natural pastures. Property rights systems are key to the sustainable management of this resource.
Pastoralism – the predominant form of livestock keeping in the Horn of Africa – has always been a source of disputes and tensions in the region.
The growing global demand for animal products also offers poor livestock keepers the opportunity to switch from the subsistence to the market economy.
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