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  1. Library Resource
    Land Rights, Mining and Resistance: New Struggles on Mongolia’s Pastoral Commons
    Conference Papers & Reports
    July, 2008
    Mongolia

    Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and agricultural decollectivisation, post-socialist rural contexts have afforded commons scholars particularly fertile ground for examination of institutional change and evolution under new modes of governance. In Mongolia, as elsewhere, such transformations have been characterised by the erosion of state influence and de jure and/or de facto devolution of land and resource rights.

  2. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 2008
    Spain

    The Spanish law Real Decreto 1469/2007 about the regulations of quality of Iberian pig meat, establishes limitations to the carrying capacity of Iberian pig in the dehesa (open oak parkland) and forces to the regional governments to make a programs of evaluation of acorn production at the beginning of each campaign, that will have to be based on agronomical, environmental, and topographical criteria, identifying each paddocks through SIGPAC.

  3. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    November, 2008
    Eastern Africa, Africa

    Livestock keeping in the Nile Basin contributes greatly to human security, income, culture and agricultural gross domestic product (GDP). Inappropriate livestock management uses excessive water and causes water and land degradation. Livestock-water interactions are complex, not well understood, and often ignored in agricultural water development. This results in lost opportunities to achieve sustainable and higher investment returns. Typically, livestock management also ignores important livestock-water issues.

  4. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    June, 2008
    Africa, Eastern Africa

    Livestock are recognized as essential assets for the livelihoods of poor farmers in the mixed crop-livestock systems throughout the tropics, while feed resources have been identified as an important constraint to their productivity. Two international agricultural research institutes, CIMMYT and ILRI, therefore joined forces in a project designed to improve the value of maize as livestock feed with an aim of enhancing the livelihoods of maize-livestock farmers in East-Africa.

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