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Participatory rangeland management-an enabling process for improving silvopastoral management and governance

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Title Participatory rangeland management-an enabling process for improving silvopastoral management and governance
 
Creator Flintan, Fiona E.
 
Subject silvopastoral systems
climate change adaptation
climate change mitigation
participatory approaches
 
Description Trees in dryland forests and wooded areas provide key ecosystem services such as animal feed, timber, fruits and, regulation of soil and water cycles. Equally, the presence of livestock in dryland woody areas can also play an important role in the local ecosystem; not only are they a source of income for local communities, but they also help vegetation and mobilise stored biomass. When both of these ecosystem elements are wisely combined – livestock and trees – it creates an integrated agricultural system that can boost the local ecosystem, representing a welcome agro-ecological transition in livestock farming. The ‘Grazing with Trees’ report gives a thorough assessment of the positive role that optimized extensive grazing livestock farming can play in the management and restoration of drylands forests and lands with trees. It assesses and provides sound evidence of the benefits of applying an integrated landscape approach and utilizing farmers' and pastoralists’ knowledge to halt desertification, increase resilience, and enhance food security under the actual changing scenario. The report confirms the importance of agroforestry as a primary pathway for forest restoration in dryland areas as recommended by FAO’s State of Forests 2022, and its recommendations encourage landscape planners and decision makers to consider livestock as allies, carefully restore tree cover and accelerate action to promote healthy ecosystems.
 
Date 2022-10-30
2023-01-17T11:22:48Z
2023-01-17T11:22:48Z
 
Type Case Study
 
Identifier Flintan, F. 2022. Participatory rangeland management-an enabling process for improving silvopastoral management and governance. IN: Haddad, F.F., Herrera, P.M. and Besbes, B. (eds.), Grazing with trees. FAO Forestry Paper 187. Rome, Italy: FAO: 106-110.
978-92-5-136956-2
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/127278
https://doi.org/10.4060/cc2280en
 
Language en
 
Relation FAO Forestry Paper
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0
Open Access
 
Format 106-110
application/pdf
 
Publisher FAO