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Restoration of traditional pastoral management forums
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Restoration of traditional pastoral management forums [Angola]

The transhumance pastoral communities of Southern Angola traditionally held gatherings of chieftains and community leaders to discuss management of commonly held pastoral resources. However, the conflicts of the last century led to the breakdown in traditional governance and the majority of the traditional management systems were abandoned. The RETESA Project …

  • Compiler: Nicholas Euan Sharpe
Community supported pasture and rangeland rehabilitation works
technologies

Community supported pasture and rangeland rehabilitation works [Angola]

Rehabilitation of rangelands involves selection of key pasture and fodder species, and their reintroduction into strategic areas through stakeholder participation. The technology is also supported by communal management plans, which were created to address the root causes of land degradation.

  • Compiler: Nicholas Euan Sharpe
Split Ranch Grazing Strategy
technologies

Split Ranch Grazing Strategy [Botswana]

Split Ranch Grazing involves grazing half the available area for a full year - concentrating livestock. The consequent grazing pressure maintains the grassland in an immature, high-quality state, while resting the other half, allowing optimal recovery from the previous full years grazing. The technology is simple, requiring less fencing than …

  • Compiler: Richard Fynn
'Forage Christine'
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'Forage Christine' [Burkina Faso]

A modern hydraulic complex in the centre of the Sahelian region of Burkina Faso for watering livestock in the dry season.

  • Compiler: Nouhoun Zampaligré
Alliance Farming
technologies

Alliance Farming [Cameroon]

Alliance farming refers to collaboration between crop farmers and pastoralists, who agree to use the same land and related resources (crop residues as fodder for pastoralists; dung as fertilizer for crop farmers) for their mutual benefit.

  • Compiler: Blasius Azuhnwi
Pastoralist field schools
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Pastoralist field schools [Ethiopia]

Pastoralist field schools improve livelihoods and resilience of pastoral communities through a process of hands-on experimental and participatory learning. They are "schools without walls" that introduce good agricultural and marketing practices while building on local knowledge. The PFS approach builds heavily on the basic principles of discovery based learning to …

  • Compiler: Giacomo de' Besi
Holistic Rangeland Management combined with high end tourism
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Holistic Rangeland Management combined with high end tourism [Kenya]

The establishment of a community wildlife conservancy facilitates (1) 'holistic rangeland management' refering to a to the implementation of a suite of management practices aimed at sustaining and/or improving rangeland productivity such as 'bunched grazing' (livestock concentrated for short duration intensive grazing), short-term 'bomas' (livestock corrals occupied for ~7 days), …

  • Compiler: Harry Wells
Mugie Resource Sharing and Livestock to Markets Program
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Mugie Resource Sharing and Livestock to Markets Program [Kenya]

Selected livestock are bought from the communities, then fattened and marketed by the Mugie conservancy management on a ‘resource sharing’ basis – generating income for both the conservancy and the community. This encourages the development of local value chains and market-based incentives for better rangeland management and animal husbandry outside …

  • Compiler: Peter Tyrrell