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Building Resilience to climate change - Ecosystem-based adaptation and lessons from the field
… change into account; c) Adaptation of high-mountain farming systems decreases the pressure on natural ecosystems … Water (access and distribution); agricultural and livestock products; wild food; medicinal products; fuel and … Land use in the study area is dominated by crop and livestock systems. At the same time, the main adaptation …
Water in drylands - Adapting to scarcity through integrated management
… Page 14. Case study 1: Community members Watering livestock and fetching potable water from shallow well … contexts. The case studies selected were: 1. Pastoral livestock management in semi-arid and arid Northern Kenya 2. … enhanced water availability; • Additional income from fish farming and increased agricultural activity; • Greening of …
Legislative and regulatory options for animal welfare
… apply to other types of production such as subsistence farming and small-scale commercial production. Different … and territories, the world veterinary community and livestock industries, and produced a set of considerations … Forestry; in Costa Rica, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock; and in Tanzania, the Ministry of Livestock …
What is Agrodiversity
… food and agriculture, includes: Harvested crop varieties, livestock breeds, fish species and non domesticated (wild) … Mixed agro-ecosystems Crop species/varieties Livestock and fish species Plant/animal germplasm Soil … on fragile areas, forests and endangered species * Make farming systems more stable, robust, and sustainable * …
Restoring Forest Landscapes - An introduction to the art and science of forest landscape restoration
… of on-farm trees: on-farm trees are not only assets for farming systems but are also an important source of … purposes. In contrast, farmers who are more concerned with livestock production, or migrants who have only recently … or firebreaks and from other destructive agents (eg livestock-grazing). Tree plantations Tree plantation or …
Community - based incentives for nature conservation
… households in the division depend on mixed smallholder farming, Kibwezi is an agriculturally marginal area. Only a … for crops while the rest is comprised of low potential livestock-millet and ranching zones. Due to a combination of … The majority of households in Kibwezi obtain the bulk of livestock grazing and fodder, and domestic energy and …
Improving governance of pastoral lands
… pastoral land? “Pastoralism has been defined as extensive livestock production on the rangelands”. This broad … has been clearly demonstrated that the planned herding of livestock is a central common practice that is vital for … many countries still focus attention on crop farming to the detriment of the health of rangelands. …
Development of an analytical tool to assess national biosecurity legislation
… Produce (Grading and Marking) Act, 1937. Animal Health Livestock Importation Act, 1989; Wild Life Protection Act, … Cleansing Act, Chapter 359, 1937; Crop Production and Livestock Act, Chapter 321, 1926, as last amended in 1968. … Article 6 of the 2003 Aquaculture Law states that the farming of new aquatic animal species requires a permit from …
Improving access to forest resources - Experiences in informal tenure reform from IUCN’s Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy
… 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 …
IUCN World Heritage Outlook 2 - A conservation assessment of all natural World Heritage sites
… Danger in 2017, where it had been included in 2003 due to farming, illegal gold mining and poaching affecting its … Quarrying Crops Housing/ Urban Areas Roads/ Railroads Livestock Farming / Grazing Poaching Tourism/ Recreation … Marine/ Freshwater Aquaculture Volcanoes Solid Waste Livestock Farming / Grazing Industrial/ Military Ef�uents …