Restoring rangelands: the art of flexible livestock management

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...

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Autor principal: Louhaichi, Mounir
Formato: Blog Post
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/126759
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Sumario: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.