FAO-China Technical Cooperation Project-TCP Strengthening Capability of Risk Management of the Animal Husbandry Sector and Promoting Sustainable Development in the Grazing Area of Qinghai Province Pastoral Risk Management in Qinghai Province Consolidated by Food and Agricultural Organization-FAO |
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Chapter 1 - INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The TCP Project1.3 The Project Pilot Areas
1.4 Grazing resource management(1) Grazing systems
(2) Grassland management and its problems in Pilot Villages
(3) Grassland monitoring1.5 Pastoral Risk and Approaches to Pastoral Risk Management (PRM)
(1) Pastoral risk
(2) The Government disaster prevention programme in Qinghai
(3) Integrating PRM and the existing government programme for disaster prevention: Elements for an enhanced PRM agenda in Qinghai
Chapter 2 - MONITORING AND ASSESSING GRASSLANDS
2.1 Grassland monitoring
2.2 Pastoral resource assessment(1) RAPS-Resource Assessment for Pastoral System
(2) Training on RAPS
(3) RAPS benchmark databases
(4) RAPS and risk assessment
(5) Main conclusions on pastoral resource assessmentChapter 3 - MANAGING GRASSLANDS
3.1 Present grazing management system: winter and summer pasture
3.2 Pastoral Land Tenure and Grazing Management(1) Reserved grassland
(2) Reducing and redirecting grazing pressure3.3 Rehabilitation of degraded grasslands
3.4 Control of rodent damage(1) Oats growing by herders
(2) The Establishment of household based fodder production
(3) Seed supply
(4) Constraints to the expansion of oat growing
(5) Haymaking(1) Household storage of hay and concentrates and fodder banks
(2) Emergency fodder funds
(3) Marketed fodder and hayChapter 5 ANIMAL BREEDING AND HEALTH
5.1 Assessment of current animal productivity
5.2 Improving livestock resilience to risk
5.3 Veterinary measures for improving the animal health conditionsChapter 6 MANAGING SEVERE RISK
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Winter preparation
6.3 Forecasting
6.4 Winter preparedness and early warning report
6.4 Early warning stages
6.5 Reacting to the forecast
6.6 Winter preparedness exercise
Chapter 7 STRATEGIES TO MANAGE PASTORAL RISK AND REDUCE VULNERABILITY
I. PRM AGENDA COMPONENT: GRAZING AND PASTURE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Strategy 1: Measuring and monitoring grazing resources
Strategy 2: Managing grasslandsII. PRM AGENDA COMPONENT: WINTER FEED
Strategy 3: Household based feed and fodder production
Strategy 4: Fodder markets, fodder banks and emergency fodder fundsIII. PRM AGENDA COMPONENT: LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION, BREEDING AND HEALTH
Strategy 5: Animal production and breeding
Strategy 6: Improvement of animal healthIV. PRM AGENDA COMPONENT: ENCOURAGING HERDER RESILIENCE TO PASTORAL RISK
Strategy 7: Early warning and rapid reaction system for PRM
Strategy 8: Improved housing and pastoral infrastructures
Strategy 9: Promoting herder cooperationV. PRM AGENDA COMPONENT: POLICY AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORKS FOR PASTORAL RISK MANAGEMENT
Strategy 10: Mainstreaming pastoral risk management within a reshaped pastoral economy
Strategy 11: Financing pastoral risk management
Strategy 12: Improving governance for pastoral risk management