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Managing rangelands: promoting sustainable tree species - Acacia modesta
Acacia modesta: A frost-resistant and drought-tolerant tree ideal foralleviating feed shortages and feeding costs.
Climate change and intensive grazing due to increasing livestock numbers are severely affecting arid and ...
Managing rangelands: promoting sustainable native shrub species - Calligonum comosum
Calligonum comosum: the multipurpose sand dune stabilizer.
Arid and semi-arid rangelands face increasing climate variability and grazing pressure as the world’s demand for food increases. ICARDA is promoting drought-tolerant ...
Using GPS collars at the Karakalpakstan site. Presentation of Work.
The (brief) presentation describes the use of GPS collars in Karakalpakstan action site to monitor the movement of representative grazing Karakul sheep. The GPS collars were deployed on 20 August 2015 on the sheep.
Minutes of the stakeholder's workshop
Minutes for the stakeholder meeting held in Tunis for the development of sound policies that will enable implementation of governance of rangelands (collective action for sustainable pastoralism)
A Digital Geo-referencing System for Monitoring Ground Cover in Drylands
This article talks about the Digital Vegetative Charting Technique and how it can reduce field sampling costs and provide more detailed mapping.
Initial Assessment of Medicinal Plants Across the Libyan Mediterranean Coast
The medicinal plants of the Libyan Mediterranean Coast represent an opportunity to reduce rural poverty in the arid and semi-arid ecosystems due to their water use efficiency, low costs of collection and cultivation, high ...
Local knowledge of pastoral and agro-pastoral communities for managing uncertainties in south-eastern Tunisia: the case of Béni Khédache (BK)
Local knowledge of pastoral and agro-pastoral communities for managing uncertainties in south-eastern Tunisia: the case of Béni Khédache (BK)
Rangeland governance
Presentation made by Jutta werner during the stakeholder meeting held in Tunis and aimed at developing sound policies that will enable implementation of governance of rangelands (collective action for sustainable pastoralism)
The Influence of Geo-morphological Landscape Patterns on Vegetation Characteristics in Central Asia
Site, season and aspects have significant impact on the vegetation characteristics (species composition, cover, and biomass production). Using modern technology for assessing and monitoring rangeland conditions is advantageous.
The effect of grazing exclusion on vegetation characteristics and plant community structure in arid lowland pastures
Rangelands are the mainstay of pastoral livelihoods worldwide. Within rangelands, there are landscape depressions or lowlands characterized by high production potentials with their unique edaphic and hydrologic properties. ...