Reducing overgrazing

Recent estimates charge overgrazing with 35% of all human-induced soil degradation worldwide. In Africa, the figure reach 49%. Overgrazing needs to be reduced to a sustainable grazing level.

1. Improving farm management
2. Adopting sound grazing practices

1. Promoting conservation orientated grazing regimes
2. Increasing water sources for livestock to prevent overgrazing around existing sources

1. Stabilizing agricultural and livestock production
2. Raising profitable market livestock
3. Minimizing soil erosion
4. Managing drylands
5. Improving animal husbandry
6. Developing technical competence in dryland agriculture
7. Developing sustainable agriculture in humid areas
8. Combating desertification
9. Addressing problems of cultivation of marginal agricultural land

1. Providing incentives for sustainable use of natural resources by farmers
2. Monitoring overstocking
3. Improving animal feed products
4. Distributing surplus domestic animal production
5. Controlling herd grazing patterns

1. Overgrazing

1. Unsustainable short-term improvements in agricultural productivity
2. Unsustainable agricultural development
3. Soil erosion
4. Overgrazing
5. Loss of plant cover
6. Inadequate animal husbandry
7. Environmental hazards from meat production
8. Desertification
9. Deforestation
10. Declining agricultural land

1. Overgrazing