Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism

Crop growth models play a major role in sustaining the world-wide food security. These models are used to simulate crop growth during the growing season, and the final crop yield at the end of the growing season, given the farmers’ management practices.

En los sistemas extensivos para la producción de caprinos en el Norte de México, existe una fuerte problemática debido a que la alimentación del ganado está sumamente restringida en los agostaderos dada a la baja disponibilidad de forraje de especies nativas como consecuencia del sobrepastoreo, aunado a las escasas lluvias que en los últimos años se han presentado en el país.

This publication is a baseline assessment reviewing the current knowledge of land degradation in the rangelands of Jordan - known as Badia - with a special focus on its causes. It includes a review of current legislation and on-going initiatives to combat land degradation, along with an analysis of the main constraints limiting their effectiveness.

The five components of the toolkit - Land, Extractive Industries, Renewable Resources, Strengthening Capacity & Resource-Rich Economies - all aim to demonstrate how well-managed natural resources can prevent conflict or contribute to peace and sustainable development in war-torn nations.

In the future scenario for livestock development, there is a continuing role for smallholder producers, particular for dairy and small ruminants, relying heavily on grass and crop-residues, however in a growth mode, intensifying production, and enhancing the efficiency of resource use (less land, labor and feed resources per unit product).

The 2011 Annual Report describes the achievements in each of the six rivers basins and how they are each responding to a well-defined development challenge. Stories and highlights from the basins elaborate on the messages.

In October 2012 the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) held its third Independent Science Panel meeting in Burkina Faso.

JRC, CCAFS jointly sponsored the workshop on June 13-14, 2012, at the JRC in Ispra, Italy, to identify avenues for exploiting remote sensing information to improving crop forecasting in smallholder farming environments. The workshop’s objectives were:

The GHG (greenhouse gas) mitigation potential from the agricultural sector is set to increase in coming decades. Much of the agricultural mitigation potential lies in developing countries where systems are dominated by smallholder farmers.

The purpose of this transdisciplinary project was to cogenerate methods, information and solutions between local communities, local and international scientists and policy makers involved in climate change and adaptation programmes, for coping mechanisms and adapting strategies to climate change and variability in Africa.

The global livestock sector is diverse, undergoing rapid change and frequently

misunderstood. Livestock impact issues of major global concern, including food security,

poverty alleviation and environmental and human health. But these impacts differ greatly

across the globe, depending on factors such as the levels of wealth or poverty in a