Livestock production and poverty alleviation — challenges and opportunities in arid and semi‐arid tropical rangeland based systems
Rangelands are the largest land use system on Earth.They predominate in arid and semi‐arid areas of the World.Large numbers of poor and vulnerable people live in them.Arid and semi‐arid rangeland systems are constrained by low primary productivity, low population densities, lack of market access and infrastructure and high transaction costs.Population density and climate change are creating important changes in land use, access to resources and livelihood strategies of pastoralists in these areas.Arid and semi‐arid rangeland systems are no longer seen as livestock enterprises but as multiple use systems with important consequences for the global environment and for more diversified livelihood strategies.They are crucial for the protection of ecosystems goods and services, for tourism and for mitigating climate change.Research agendas need to take into account the trade‐offs and synergies arising from these multiple uses so that the poor are able to reap the multiple benefits provided by these ecosystems.
C.Sere A.Ayantunde A.Duncan A.Freeman M.Herrero S.Tarareali I.Wright
International Livestock Research Institute,P.O.Box 30709,Nairobi,Kenya
国际会议
呼和浩特
英文
2008-06-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）