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: Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), Autores individuales
Topic: Cambio climático, Servicios ambientales, Tierra
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: Global
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: Autores individuales
Topic: Cambio climático, Seguridad alimentaria
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: Global
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: Autores individuales
Topic: Cambio climático, Economía, Servicios ambientales, Seguridad alimentaria, El conocimiento indígena, Pueblos indígenas, Tierra, Resiliencia
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico, Científico, Bases de datos
Geographical coverage: Global
Este informe documenta las buenas prácticas de gestión de los pastizales y tierras de pastoreo como una forma de informar las decisiones sobre la gestión de los mismos; y generar conciencia sobre la importancia de las prácticas de gestión identificadas localmente. Destaca el hecho de que estas prácticas de gestión de los pastizales no coinciden necesariamente con las prácticas definidas por los científicos y ecólogos. El público objetivo de este documento de trabajo incluye a los responsables de la toma de decisiones, a los gestores de las tierras, a otros usuarios de las mismas y a los científicos.
Year of publication: 2022Organization: Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), Autores individuales
Topic: Innovación, Tierra
Language: Español
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: Latinoamérica, África Occidental, África Oriental, Asia Central
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: Autores individuales
Topic: Cambio climático, Servicios ambientales
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: Global
“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: Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Topic: Cambio climático, Servicios ambientales, Resiliencia
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: Global
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: Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (IUCN)
Topic: Servicios ambientales, Innovación, Tierra, Participación
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: Latinoamérica, África Occidental, África Oriental, Asia Central
This report explores some of the critical challenges that converge at the intersection of climate change and land governance. Some of these challenges are droughts, desertification, disaster risk, land and water management, land degradation and restoration, soil erosion and conservation, biodiversity, and food security.
Year of publication: 2022Organization: Autores individuales
Topic: Cambio climático, Servicios ambientales, Tierra
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: Cercano Oriente