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    Sustainability

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2018
    Argentina

    The livestock sector can be a major contributor to the mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Within the sector, beef production produces the largest proportion of the livestock sector’s direct emissions. The objective of this study was to assess the on-farm GHG emissions in semi-arid rangelands in Argentina and to identify the relationship between emissions and current farm management practices. A survey recorded detailed information on farm management and characteristics.

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    Land

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2021
    Argentina

    This article examines the agrarian landscape in one part of the southern Andes (Quebrada of Humahuaca, Jujuy, Argentina). The region possesses extensive and well-preserved archaeological remains of agricultural systems, which stretch back to pre-Hispanic times. In this study, we employ an interdisciplinary approach in our analysis of the components that structure the agrarian landscape, especially those historical processes that intervened in its formation.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2016
    Argentina, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, China, Cameroon, Algeria, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, Senegal, South Sudan, Chad, Central Asia

    It took scientists more than three decades to transform a perceived desertification crisis in the Sahel into a non-event. Looking beyond the Sahel, the chapters in this book provide case studies from around the world that examine the use and relevance of the desertification concept.

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    Volume 10 Issue 2

    Peer-reviewed publication
    February, 2021
    Argentina, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Brazil, Canada, Spain, Paraguay, United States of America, South America

    The stabling of livestock farming implies changes in both local ecosystems (regeneration of forest stands via reduced grazing) and those located thousands of kilometers away (deforestation to produce grain for feeding livestock). Despite their importance, these externalities are poorly known. Here we evaluated how the intensification and confinement of livestock in Spain has affected forest surface changes there and in South America, the largest provider of soybeans for animal feed to the European Union.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    June, 2018
    Nepal, Jordan, Morocco, Kenya, South Africa, Nicaragua, Uganda, Mali, Burkina Faso, China, Australia, Spain, Argentina, Senegal, Ethiopia, Mongolia, Niger, Cameroon, Norway, Lebanon

    As Diretrizes Voluntárias sobre a Governança Responsável da Posse da Terra, das Pescas e das Florestas no Contexto da Segurança Alimentar Nacional mencionam explicitamente os pastores como utilizadores das Diretrizes e como alvos de capacitação. Apesar da marginalização histórica e muitas vezes contínua dos pastores, este guia técnico foi desenvolvido em resposta às oportunidades emergentes para apoiar os pastores e para reforçar os seus direitos à terra e aos recursos.

  6. Library Resource
    Legislation
    September, 2016
    Argentina

    El objeto de la presente Ley es garantizar el derecho de las familias trashumantes de la Provincia del Neuquén a transitar con su ganado por las huellas de arreo, para trasladarse de las zonas de invernada a las de veranada y viceversa, en trashumancia, conservando el ambiente y respetando el patrimonio natural y cultural de la zona.

  7. Library Resource
    Legislation
    October, 1991
    Argentina

    La presente Ley introduce el marco normativo que rige las acciones tendientes a la conservación del suelo agrícola, es decir al mantenimiento y mejoramiento de su capacidad productiva.

  8. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2013
    Argentina

    En el presente trabajo se realiza un análisis comparativo de la dinámica del pastoreo en dos comunidades de la puna o altiplano jujeño, a fin de identificar las diversas estrategias empleadas para reducir los riesgos y la incertidumbre asociada a la actividad pastoril. La comunidad de Lagunillas del Farallón se ubica en el extremo noroeste de la puna de la provincia de Jujuy, donde los pastores crían principalmente llamas y cabras con un sistema de rotación estival.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    June, 2016
    Argentina

    El siguiente trabajo expone los resultados del análisis de isótopos estables de carbono y nitrógeno (δ13Cco, δ15N y δ13Cap) de una muestra de 20 individuos humanos adultos procedentes de diferentes sectores del sitio Los Amarillos (Período de Desarrollos Regionales e Inca, Quebrada de Humahuaca, Jujuy, Argentina). El principal objetivo consistió en determinar los recursos predominantes en las dietas, considerando la información isotópica regional para recursos vegetales y animales.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2015
    Argentina

    El pastoreo o su exclusión, altera el banco de semillas en pastizales. Se analizó el efecto del pastoreo sobre el banco de semillas de la estepa de halófitas de un pastizal de la Pampa Deprimida. Los tratamientos fueron: 1) Pastoreo continuo con alta intensidad (C); 2) Pastoreo rotativo por 3 años con intensidad moderada (con historia de pastoreo continuo) (PR); y 3) Clausurado al pastoreo por 12 años (Cl), en Vieytes, Buenos Aires. Los muestreos se realizaron en febrero (Banco de Semillas Invernal: BSI) y en junio (Banco de Semillas Estival: BSE).

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