Soils contribute to the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals through carbon sequestration. By enhancing soil health and fertility, soils can play a crucial role in climate action, land degradation neutrality, and alleviating hunger. The present study provides a spatially explicit report on the state of grassland soils and can be used as a baseline for future work to explore the impacts of livestock management on soil carbon at regional, country and farm levels. Assessing the current state of grassland systems and their potential to sequester carbon in the soil is of key importance to understanding the trade-offs between grassland services on food security, biodiversity conservation and climate mitigation.
Year of publication: 2023Organization: منظمة الأغذية والزراعة للأمم المتحدة, كتاب مستقلون
Topic: تغير المناخ, الخدمات البيئية, نوع الملكية
Language: English
Type of document: تقني
Geographical coverage: مناطق العالم
The goal of this technical paper is to draw attention to the lessons pastoral systems offer in the face of climate change, in particular with regard to the challenge of achieving global resilience to climate variability without depending on unsustainable energy inputs.
Year of publication: 2023Organization: كتاب مستقلون
Topic: تغير المناخ, أمن غذائي
Language: English
Type of document: تقني
Geographical coverage: مناطق العالم
Despite awareness of the critical roles of rangelands in sustaining livelihoods of pastoralists and ecological safeguarding, rangelands have felt the pressure of habitat fragmentation, land use change, industrialization, enclosure, privatization, militarization, and ecosystem devastation. This international blind peer-review journal, ‘Pastures & Pastoralism’, will contribute to the science, policy and practice across the world by providing a novel platform to seasoned, budding and young scientists, experts and practitioners, including the pastoral community members.
Year of publication: 2023Organization: كتاب مستقلون
Topic: تغير المناخ, اقتصاد, الخدمات البيئية, أمن غذائي, الإدراك الفطري, الشعوب الأصلية, نوع الملكية, مرونة
Language: English
Type of document: تقني, علمي, قواعد البيانات
Geographical coverage: مناطق العالم
Organization: منظمة الأغذية والزراعة للأمم المتحدة
Topic: تغير المناخ, الخدمات البيئية, أمن غذائي, مرونة
Language: العربية
Type of document: تقني
Geographical coverage: مناطق العالم
We all know that industrial livestock farming is destroying our ecosystems and damaging the climate. But does that mean going vegan is the only way to save the planet? Not all meat and milk is created equal, and traditional communities around the world raise animals in very different ways, with hugely different environmental impacts.
Year of publication: 2022Organization: كتاب مستقلون
Topic: تغير المناخ, الخدمات البيئية
Language: English
Type of document: تقني
Geographical coverage: مناطق العالم
“Grazing with Trees” is a timely report which draws evidence from research, shares experiences from various case studies, and collates valuable knowledge from people on the ground. The report constitutes a solid foundation based on which we can analyse the current situation, discuss the main challenges and threats and, above all, build a roadmap to enhance the benefits provided by dryland silvopastoralism.
Year of publication: 2022Organization: منظمة الأغذية والزراعة للأمم المتحدة
Topic: تغير المناخ, الخدمات البيئية, مرونة
Language: English
Type of document: تقني
Geographical coverage: مناطق العالم
This participatory grassland and rangeland assessment (PRAGA) methodology was developed for the assessment of rangelands and grasslands in selected project countries. The methodology was piloted in five countries – Burkina Faso, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Niger and Uruguay – to test its effectiveness and value. Necessary revisions were made to the methodology, based on lessons learned from its application. This document contains background information on global grasslands and rangelands and describes the need and the guiding principle for rangeland health assessments and practical guidance on how to conduct cost-effective assessment.
Year of publication: 2022Organization: منظمة الأغذية والزراعة للأمم المتحدة, الاتحاد الدولي لحفظ الطبيعة
Topic: الخدمات البيئية, ابتكار, نوع الملكية, مشاركة
Language: English
Type of document: تقني
Geographical coverage: أمريكا اللاتينية, غربية افريقيا, شرق أفريقيا, آسيا الوسطى
This report documents the good practices of rangeland management as a way to inform decisions on rangeland management; and raise awareness about the importance of locally identified management practices. It highlights the fact that these rangeland management practices do not necessarily align with practices as defined by scientists/ecologists. The target audience of this working paper includes decision-makers, land managers, other land users, and scientists.
Year of publication: 2022Organization: منظمة الأغذية والزراعة للأمم المتحدة, كتاب مستقلون
Topic: ابتكار, نوع الملكية
Language: English
Type of document: تقني
Geographical coverage: أمريكا اللاتينية, غربية افريقيا, شرق أفريقيا, آسيا الوسطى