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Reducing overgrazing

Context:
Recent estimates charge overgrazing with 35% of all human-induced soil degradation worldwide. In Africa, the figure reach 49%. Overgrazing needs to be reduced to a sustainable grazing level.
Broader:
Improving farm management
Adopting sound grazing practices
Narrower:
Promoting conservation orientated grazing regimes
Increasing water sources for livestock to prevent overgrazing around existing sources
Constrains:
Overgrazing
Facilitates:
Managing drylands
Minimizing soil erosion
Combating desertification
Combating desertification
Raising profitable market livestock
Stabilizing agricultural and livestock production
Developing sustainable agriculture in humid areas
Developing technical competence in dryland agriculture
Addressing problems of cultivation of marginal agricultural land
Facilitated by:
Monitoring overstocking
Improving animal feed products
Controlling herd grazing patterns
Distributing surplus domestic animal production
Providing incentives for sustainable use of natural resources by farmers
Problems:
Declining agricultural land
Deforestation
Desertification
Environmental hazards from meat production
Inadequate animal husbandry
Loss of plant cover
Overgrazing
Soil erosion
Unsustainable agricultural development
Unsustainable short-term improvements in agricultural productivity
Values:
Overgrazing
Subjects:
Agriculture, Fisheries → Animal feedstuffs
Type Classification:
D: Detailed strategies

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