Restoring rangelands: the art of flexible livestock management

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2022-12-14

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Contributes to SDGs

SDG 13 - Climate action

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Mounir Louhaichi. (14/12/2022). Restoring rangelands: the art of flexible livestock management. URL: https://www.icarda.org/media/blog/restoring-rangelands-flexible-livestock-management

Abstract

A blog about the importance of the flexible grazing management strategies to meet rangeland resources sustainability targets. In Tunisia, livestock used to obtain over 80% of their feed from rangelands- today, this has fallen to 20%. Therefore and to optimize the use of rangelands, representatives from ICARDA, the Office of Livestock and Pastures (OEP), and Tunisia's General Directorate for Forestry (DGF); farmers; and pastoralists to a day-long workshop on June 6, 2022, where participants discussed a flexible approach to grazing management as proven innovation that that guarantee the sustainability of rangeland resource.

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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/67877

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https://www.icarda.org/media/blog/restoring-rangelands-flexible-livestock-management

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rangelands ; tunisia ; goal 13 climate action

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gdel resting technique; climate adaptation and mitigation; environmental health and biodiversity; fixable grazing management

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Louhaichi, Mounir  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4543-7631