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… with attempts to reforest an area that had been used for farming. The farmers involved protested and the RTAF, to its … tree planting was unsuccessful, mainly due to uncontrolled livestock grazing in the dry season. Livestock grazing also made on-farm soil conservation …

… in 2003 and April 2004 caused extensive damage to crops, livestock, houses, roads and bridges. Thousands of people … some possessions, protect themselves, families and livestock), but would not prevent the flood from taking … Management Sugarcane Production Fiji sugarcane farming is based on rain-fed agriculture, with cane …

… avoided deforestation (chapter 7). � FAO, LEAD. 2006. Livestock’s Long Shadow – Environmental Issues and Options … might play as a framework for incentivizing sustainable livestock practices. Beyond the more focused section on PES, … paper evaluates the importance of watershed services to farming communities in Southeast Asia. A case study in …

… are forcing many upland peoples to adopt unsustainable farming and land-use practices such as excessive livestock grazing, tree felling, and the cultivation of … farming and land-use practices such as excessive livestock grazing, tree felling, and the cultivation of …

… collecting formerly plentiful fuel wood; grasses to feed livestock became scarcer, as did traditionally harvested wild …

… production of a small number of services such as crops and livestock. Unfortunately, that is not the case across the …

… be used for subsistence cropping, among other land uses. Livestock is also lost through injury and predation, mostly … the only resources local communities own and control are livestock and crops, and not the land from which they derive … More communities are now engaged in subsistence crop farming, but under very difficult conditions. Like most parts …