This chapter describes how cropping systems can be used to supplement feeds to increase dairy and poultry yields. It completes the concept of on-farm integration of crop, livestock and natural resources technologies necessary for sustainable intensification on smallholder farms. The different...

This chapter examines conflicts over water and pastures between agro-pastoral communities in the Ferghana Valley, which lies along the Kyrgyz-Tajik border. The chapter provides insight into the transformative environment of the border regimes and natural resource management, since the time of...

In developing countries like Tanzania, societal vulnerability to the risks of climate change and variability (CC&V) exacerbate ongoing social and economic challenges because people's livelihoods are largely dependent on resources that are sensitive to climate change such as agriculture....

This chapter introduces the book 'Climate Change Impact and Adaptation in Agricultural Systems', which is comprised of fifteen chapters. The book provides insights into sensitivities and possible adaptive measures to climate change across a number of different production systems, ranging from...

This chapter describes and differentiates the 4 major livestock production systems that exist within both Developing and Developed Countries. These systems are (1) intensive land use and low-input: smallholder mixed farming; (2) extensive land use and low-input: agro-pastoralism; (3) intensive land ...

This chapter examines the existing interactions between cereal cropping systems and pastoral areas, as the base for sustainable agriculture development in Mediterranean countries. It covers the importance and role of fallow lands in cereal-livestock integration, the importance of grasslands for...

This chapter describes some typical households in selected farming systems in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, and explores strategic priorities for small-scale agricultural development and poverty alleviation.

Cholistan is an extension of the Great Indian Desert and covers an area of 26 330 km². It lies within the south-east quadrant of Punjab province between 27°42′ and 29°45′north latitude and 69°52′ and 73°05′east longitude. The Cholistan desert has extreme summer temperatures (50°C plus) and...

In the Northern Ethiopian Highlands, one of the least-favoured areas in East Africa, farming systems are characterized by the integrated management of crop and livestock components. The overall objective of this chapter was to increase insight into the functioning of these farming systems, with...

This chapter discusses issues on sustainable management and utilization of rangelands for raising livestock, particularly by the communities surrounding such areas. Four themes are emphasized in this paper, viz., multiple uses, maintenance of the basic resources upon which all rangeland uses...