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

Addressing problems of cultivation of marginal agricultural land

Managing drylands

Developing technical competence in dryland agriculture

Developing sustainable agriculture in humid areas

Combating desertification

Stabilizing agricultural and livestock production

Raising profitable market livestock

Minimizing soil erosion

Improving animal husbandry

Facilitated by

Providing incentives for sustainable use of natural resources by farmers

Monitoring overstocking

Improving animal feed products

Distributing surplus domestic animal production

Controlling herd grazing patterns

Problem

Unsustainable short-term improvements in agricultural productivity

Unsustainable agricultural development

Inadequate animal husbandry

Declining agricultural land

Value

Overgrazing

Metadata

Database

Global strategies

Type

(D) Detailed strategies

Subject

Agriculture, fisheries » Animal feedstuffs » Animal feedstuffs

Content quality

Yet to rate

Language

English

Last update

Dec 3, 2024