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Pastoral Development Network

Acronym: 
PDN
Website: 
http://www.odi.org.uk/pdn/

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Working languages: 
anglais
Global
éleveur pastoral
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The Pastoral Development Network represents a world-wide network of researchers, administrators and extension personnel interested in the issues of pastoralism and rangelands. Between 1976 and 1996 the PDN was managed by ODI and published regular mailings including newsletters and a wide ranging series of papers on pastoralism and related issues. There were also a number of other related publications.

Affiliated organization: 

Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) is the UK's leading independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues.

Mission 

Our mission is to inspire and inform policy and practice which lead to the reduction of poverty, the alleviation of suffering and the achievement of sustainable livelihoods in developing countries.

We do this by locking together high quality applied research, practical policy advice, and policy-focused dissemination and debate.

Pastoral Development Network Resources

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Library Resource

Dynamic carrying capacity analysis as a tool for conceptualising and planning range management improvements, with a case study from India

janvier, 1993
Inde, Asie méridionale
terre

The paper begins with a literature review of the basic theories which underpin range science. Two major approaches for determining carrying capacity (CC) are described, animal or plant oriented. The inherent problems with each approach are discussed in the light of a recent, wider debate, questioning the validity of CC as a range management tool.Methodological approaches for determination of CC, with inherent problems, are discussed.

Library Resource

Range degradation in Botswana: Myth or reality?

janvier, 1993
Botswana, Afrique sub-saharienne
Terres, changement climatique et environnement
dégradation des terres

Paper attempts to dispel some of the confusion surrounding the application of the range degradation concept in Botswana. It has three objectives. First, to present the current thinking of range ecologists vis-a-vis range degradation. Second, to dismiss recent arguments that range degradation in Botswana is insignificant.

Library Resource

Carrying capacity, rangeland degradation and livestock development for the communal rangelands of Botswana

janvier, 1993
Botswana, Afrique sub-saharienne
Terres, changement climatique et environnement
Pâturages, terres arides et pastoralisme
développement
dégradation des terres
parcours
terre

A useful debate is developing over carrying capacity and the degradation of communal rangelands in sub-Saharan Africa. With a few lonely exceptions, scientists and policy-makers have in the past claimed that degradation is universal and livestock productivity lowered because of overstocking on communal range. This position has been mainly dogmatic. More recent research has not supported dogmatists; hence the debate, which impinges on livestock development policy in Botswana.A new livestock development policy is being promoted by the Government of Botswana (Ministry of Agriculture 1991).

Library Resource

Carrying capacity, rangeland degredation and livestock development for the communal rangelands of Botswana

janvier, 1993
Botswana, Afrique sub-saharienne
Terres, changement climatique et environnement
Pâturages, terres arides et pastoralisme
développement
dégradation des terres
parcours
terre

Recent arguments have stated that the new livestock development policy will carry a high social cost, that the reality of range degradation in Botswana has been ignored, and that there is no basis for assuming that de-stocking would decrease the productivity of rangeland.

Library Resource

Changes in migration and feeding patterns among semi-nomadic pastoralists in Northern Syria

janvier, 1993
République arabe syrienne, Asie occidentale, Afrique septentrionale
Pâturages, terres arides et pastoralisme
éleveur pastoral
pâturage

This article looks at the changes which are taking place in the Syrian semi-nomadic bedouin flocks' feeding and migration patterns, and the historical reasons for these changes. Most of the discussion will focus on three steppe-based villages in northern Syria, where the International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA) undertook a three-year survey between 1978 and 1981, and where a follow-up study was done this year.

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