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This primer focuses on one type of livestock-keeping: pastoralism.
Livestock can be good for the environment. It depends on which livestock, where. Pastoralism – the system of often mobile, extensive livestock production on rangelands – can improve biodiversity, help sequester carbon and protect the environment.
Huge global targets for tree planting are being set; everyone is urged to plant a tree to save the planet.
Extensive livestock use can enhance biodiversity and support species conservation in multiple ways. Mobile pastoral systems can create bio-corridors through transhumance routes and disperse seeds, enhancing biodiversity across landscapes, for example.
In recent years there have been devastating wildfires across the world. Wildfire incidence is increasing with climate change, and wildfires are predicted to increase by 50% by the end of the centuryi .
Debates about the role of livestock in wider landscapes have come into sharp focus around the idea of ‘rewilding’, linked to plans for ‘ecosystem restoration’. Rewilding Britain defines rewilding as “the large-scale restoration of ecosystems to the point where nature is allowed to take care
Pastoralists and other livestock keepers are too often pitted against conservationists.
Cette note restitue les discussions d’une journée consacrée aux enjeux de sécurisation des systèmes pastoraux et agropastoraux qui a été organisée le 20 novembre 2024 à l’AFD à l’initiative du Comité technique « Foncier & développement » (CTFD).
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