The encroachment of agricultural practices into traditional rangeland areas of north-eastern Morocco is considered by some to have negative impacts in both the agro-pastoral communities that utilise these ranges and the surrounding physical environment. Indicating the extent and location of such land use changes provides resource managers with valuable information on which more sustainable deve...

Livestock production is a key income source in eastern Africa, and 80% of 22 the total agricultural land is used for livestock herding. Hence, ecological and 23 socio-economically sustainable rangeland management is crucial. Our study aimed at 24 selecting operational economic, environmental and social sustainability indicators for three 25 main pastoral (P), agro-pastoral (AP), and landless in...

Title: Characterization of Non-Tuberculous Mycobacterium from Humans and Water in an Agro pastoral area in Zambia Authors: Sydney Malama ([email protected]) Ngula Monde ([email protected]) Musso Munyeme ([email protected]) Adrian Muwonge ([email protected]) John Muma ([email protected]) Version: 1 Date: 09 Oct 2017 Author’s response to reviews: Dear Editor Thanks...

The conversion of tropical forest ecosystems to agro-pastoral ecosystems and other land uses continues unabated in Latin America. The present document constitutes a comparative study in which the degree of forest fragmentation through a 23-year period (between 1973 and 1996) was evaluated in two areas located within the same ecological region, but in two different countries (Colombia and Ecuado...

Agro-sylvo-pastoral systems are common around the Mediterranean Basin, where they provide a variety of goods and services to local populations. Their sustainability relies on efficient grazing management, especially in rangelands. The diversity pastoral resources, combined with management techniques farming objectives, has slowed down development digital tools assist these conditions. However, ...

African animal trypanosomoses constitute the most important vector-borne cattle diseases in sub-Saharan Africa. Generally it is considered that there is a great lack of accurate tools for the diagnosis of the disease. During a trypanosomosis survey in the agro-pastoral zone of Sideradougou, Burkina Faso, 1036 cattle were examined for trypanosomes using microscopy. The PCR was applied on a subse...

1, Key Laboratory of Chemistry of Northwestern Plant Resources, Key Laboratory for Natural Medicine of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, P.R. China 2, Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, P.R. China 3, Lanzhou Institute of Husbandry and Pharmaceutical Sciences of CAAS, Lanzhou, 730000, P.R. ...