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Pastoralism, as practiced in the case study area, is the traditional mode of extensive livestock husbandry, based on the movement of herds between the rich pastures in the northern pastoral zones (rainy season) and the southern areas (dry season) according to seasonal availability of water and grazing land / fodder …

• Compiler: Soumaila Abdoulaye
• 11/12/2010 9:20 a.m.

The ‘couloirs de passage’ are formally defined passageways which channel the movements of livestock herds in the agro-pastoral zones of Niger, by linking pastures, water points and coralling areas, be it within village areas (internal couloirs) or on open land (external couloirs).

• Compiler: Lemma Ababu
• 11/11/2010 2:54 p.m.

The Montado/ Dehesa Agroforestry system contributes to carbon sequestration in Spain and Portugal. The SmartAG app helps in monitoring and management of these systems, providing data available to farmers, producers, and stakeholders.

• Compiler: Patrícia Lourenço
• 04/23/2024 5:16 p.m.

Technology is based on changing cropland to grazing land due to shallow soils with high share of rocks. This is the cause for lower yields or loss of yield during drought periods.

• Compiler: Matjaz Glavan
• 06/11/2017 11:16 p.m.

To improve infiltration and vegetation cover, by creating small pits on bare soil, which capture runoff and reduce erosion.

• Compiler: Dirk Pretorius
• 02/02/2018 1:51 p.m.

Eradication of invasive species and revegetation of degraded rangelands by different treatments, including oversowing with grass seed mixture, supplementing with lime, cattle dung, and "brush packing" (laid out branches).

• Compiler: Klaus Kellner
• 01/29/2011 3:12 p.m.

Rotational grazing is a management system based on the subdivision of the grazing area into a number of enclosures and the successive grazing of these paddocks by animals in a rotation so that not all the veld (grazing area) is grazed simultaneously

• Compiler: Lehman Lindeque
• 11/12/2010 11:07 a.m.

Es handelt sich um eine Weide, welche zu einer Tierarche gehört, dies bedeutet, dass die Tiere nicht mehr in der Nutzung stehen. Der Boden ist geprägt durch einen 25 bis 80 cm organischen Oberboden (ca. 20% organisches Materiel), nachfolgend ist meist eine wasserstauende Tonschicht zu finden.

• Compiler: Julian Meier
• 12/04/2020 11 a.m.

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• Compiler: MIZROBSHO AMIRBEKOV
• 05/09/2018 2:25 p.m.

Pasture management through introduction of a new pasture rotation technique focusing on pasture capacity

• Compiler: Aslam Qadamov
• 05/19/2011 12:24 p.m.