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Communal management of rangelands: Community-based natural resources management in Southern Africa
The governance of Southern Africa’s rangelands is a complex mix of traditional, statutory and communal systems, often facing challenges that stem from colonial legacies, land degradation and climate change. Sustainable communal rangeland management emerges when traditional practices, local governance and modern institutions come together to promote mobility and…
Land use change and rangeland degradation: Mobile pastoralism and silvopastoral solutions in South America
Land use change poses a significant threat to the biological and economic productivity of rangelands – the provisioning services on which pastoral livelihoods and food security depend – as well as their contribution to supporting, regulating and cultural services, from local to global scales. South American rangelands have supported a variety of indigenous livestock…
