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Management of range resources in mountain areas of Middle Atlas ‐ Morocco and in North Portugal

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dc.contributor.authorEl Aich, Ahmed
dc.contributor.authorCastro, Marina
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-11T11:11:39Z
dc.date.available2016-11-11T11:11:39Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractRangelands cover 69% of the word's agricultural land (FAO Stats 2009) and around 40% of all global land surface. They occupy 32% of the land surface in Portugal (ICNF 2013) and 42% in Morocco. Most of these rangelands are managed by nomads and transhumant pastoralists in Morocco, and by semi‐ sedentary in the North of Portugal. Pastoral systems have undergone profound changes. Among the trends and perturbations faced by pastoralists across the world, we can enumerate demography changes and breakdown of the traditional local institutions and systems for managing natural resources. Recently, since ecological integrity of pastoral systems that sustained natural resources for a long time depended on the mobility of people and herds, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) considered transhumant feeding systems for livestock as one of the most sustainable. As consequence, productivity of rangelands became highly variable and hardly sustain livestock requirements, especially, in mountain regions where the winter cold is an additional limiting factor for vegetal production. Therefore, livestock producers developed specific strategies to cope with the changes. The aim of this study is to document the changes livestock farming systems are going through and compare the strategies developed by livestock owners in mountainous regions in Morocco and Portugal. Our results show that in the Middle Atlas, farmers opt for diversification of agricultural activities with an intensification of livestock systems. The cost of production for livestock is increasing as consequences of rangeland degradation due to overstocking. In Portugal, pastoralism based on daily grazing routes, has constantly decreased over the years. As a result, rangelands are often under‐grazed and wildfires have and are continuously increasing.pt_PT
dc.identifier.citationEl Aich, Ahmed; Castro, Marina (2016). Management of range resources in mountain areas of Middle Atlas ‐ Morocco and in North Portugal. In I International Conference on Research for Sustainable Development in Mountain Regions: book of abstracts. ISBN 978-972-745-214-9pt_PT
dc.identifier.isbn978-972-745-214-9
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10198/13458
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherCentro de Investigação de Montanha (CIMO)pt_PT
dc.relation.publisherversionhttp://hdl.handle.net/10198/12135pt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectRange resourcespt_PT
dc.titleManagement of range resources in mountain areas of Middle Atlas ‐ Morocco and in North Portugalpt_PT
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oaire.citation.conferencePlaceBragançapt_PT
oaire.citation.titleI International Conference on Research for Sustainable Development in Mountain Regions: Book of Abstractspt_PT
person.familyNameCastro
person.givenNameMarina
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person.identifier.ridB-5197-2016
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