Policy drivers for rangelands in developing countries
The most important land‐use in rangelands is pastoralism.However, very few developing countries have functioning rangeland policies that promote sustainable pastoralism.The absence of such policies and of investment in rangelands, has resulted in environmental damage, poverty, and marginalization of pastoralists.Global demand for.clean meat and livestock products is expected to skyrocket.Intensification of the livestock industry is therefore seen as a solution, but often happens at the expense of environmental and human health.The alternative,.extensification, is not always possible in developing countries due to land shortages, but paradoxically it is a growing phenomenon in some developed countries.Rangeland policy should focus on land law, economic subsidization and taxation, public investment in infrastructure and access to local and global markets, provision of insurance, promotion of self‐organization,and mobile services for pastoralists to adapt to current and future climate variability.In other words, a.green revolution in rangelands will not be technology‐driven but policy‐driven.
pastoralism intensification extensification investment mobile services
Dr.Maryam Niamir-Fuller
Director Division of GEF,UNEP,Maryam
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）