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DocumentZero-grazing of improved cattle breeds using drought-tolerant fodder in Uganda 2017
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No results found.This technology describes how improved cattle breeds can benefit from an alternative grazing system, namely zero-grazing. In a zero-grazing system, the cattle are usually kept in the farm and the fodder is brought to them. Improved breeds are more productive and resistant to diseases which make them more efficient for the zero-grazing system, and in Uganda, breeds are fed with drought tolerant fodder to ensure cattle feed is also available in dry seasons. This good practice contributes to increase productivity and enhance the resilience of cattle raising to dry regions and diseases in Uganda. -
Book (stand-alone)Guidelines: land evaluation for extensive grazing
FAO Soils Bulletin No. 58
1991Also available in:
No results found.Extensive grazing is the predominant form of land use on at least a quarter of the world’s land surface, in which livestock are raised on food that comes mainly from rangelands. Extensive grazing differs from crop or forestry production, in which the produce remains in situ whilst growing. Evaluation for extensive grazing, unlike that for cropping or forestry, must take into account the production of both grazing forage, termed primary production, and the livestock that feed on this forage, term ed secondary production. Extensive grazing also differs from intensive grazing, in which the animal feed comes mainly from artificial, seeded pastures and not from unimproved rangeland. This relationship between livestock and arable farming must be considered when evaluating land for improved uses in which livestock play a major part. If one component of the overall land use is developed in isolation from the others, the balance between extensive grazing and arable farming may easily be distur bed. Land evaluation is used to identify alternative land uses or changes in management that will better meet national or local needs, and to estimate the consequences of each feasible change. In terms of extensive grazing, it encourages the promotion of sustainable land uses that integrate land, livestock and people for their mutual benefit. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetPeatland Restoration and Sustainable Grazing in Brandenburg
Brandenburg, Germany (52°09’53.27“N,13°35’10.09“E)
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No results found.From 2010–2015, Naturschutzfonds Brandenburg is implementing the LIFE Nature Project ‘Alkaline Fens in Brandenburg’. Through this project, Naturschutzfonds Brandenburg manages conservation activities intended to safeguard and develop large alkaline fens in fourteen Natura–2000 areas in the federal state of Brandenburg in Germany.
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