Stocking rates for African pastoral systems

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dc.contributor.authorFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.‏ United Nations Development Programmeen
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialAfricaen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T18:56:18Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T18:56:18Zen
dc.date.issued1996en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractThe promotion of commercial livestock husbandry has long been seen as a means of destocking African rangelands and increasing livestock output through increased offtake. This paper argues that commercialization does exact a long-term downward pressure on African stocking densities, which will make many policy makers, administrators, and range scientists happy. However, the shift form subsistence to market-oriented forms of range livestock husbandry also exerts downward pressure on total rangeland output and undermines the capacity of rangelands to support human populations, a possibility that is no likely to be warmly welcomed by displaced pastoralists.en
dc.format.mimetypetext/plainen
dc.identifier1445en
dc.identifier.citationWorld Animal Review 87: 9-16en
dc.identifier.issn1014-6954en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/66153en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherRome: FAOen
dc.subjectCommercializationen
dc.subjectGovernment policyen
dc.subjectLivestock fatteningen
dc.subjectRangelandsen
dc.subjectPastoralismen
dc.subjectLivestocken
dc.subjectStocking rateen
dc.subjectStocking densityen
dc.subjectEcosystemen
dc.titleStocking rates for African pastoral systemsen
dc.typeAbstracten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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