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Naturally occurring salt tolerant and halophytic plants (trees,
shrubs, grasses, and forbs) have always been utilized by livestock
as a supplement or drought reserve. Salt tolerant forage and fodder
crops are now being planted over wide areas. Increasingly,
large-scale production of fodder on formerly abandoned irrigated
cropland has allowed salt tolerant and halophytic feedstuffs to be
mainstreamed into the supply chain for feedlots. Feeding salty
feeds to livestock has been evaluated in many countries with good
outcomes especially as a way to improve livestock nutrition and
productivity. Better ways have been devised to use these
potentially valuable feed resources. These feedstuffs are best fed
in mixed rations. Substituting conventional fodder with up to 30
percent of the diets comprising halophytic feedstuffs have proved
most successful for ruminant livestock but special formulations
have been devised for poultry and rabbits. There are big savings on
the import of costly feedstuffs and benefits to livelihoods of
those dependent on scattered, sparse and unreliable forage/fodder
in the world's drylands that cover about 40 percent of the world's
land surface. This book is written by leading authorities from many
different countries. It reviews past and current work on the
animal-oriented aspects of the utilization of feedstuffs derived
from salt tolerant and halophytic plants. It brings to the reader
(scientist, researcher, academics and their students, policy
makers, and livestock operators) an up-to-date analysis of the
important issues related to salt-rich feedstuffs (nutrition,
productivity, and reproduction).
Naturally occurring salt tolerant and halophytic plants (trees,
shrubs, grasses, and forbs) have always been utilized by livestock
as a supplement or drought reserve. Salt tolerant forage and fodder
crops are now being planted over wide areas. Increasingly,
large-scale production of fodder on formerly abandoned irrigated
cropland has allowed salt tolerant and halophytic feedstuffs to be
mainstreamed into the supply chain for feedlots. Feeding salty
feeds to livestock has been evaluated in many countries with good
outcomes especially as a way to improve livestock nutrition and
productivity. Better ways have been devised to use these
potentially valuable feed resources. These feedstuffs are best fed
in mixed rations. Substituting conventional fodder with up to 30
percent of the diets comprising halophytic feedstuffs have proved
most successful for ruminant livestock but special formulations
have been devised for poultry and rabbits. There are big savings on
the import of costly feedstuffs and benefits to livelihoods of
those dependent on scattered, sparse and unreliable forage/fodder
in the world's drylands that cover about 40 percent of the world's
land surface. This book is written by leading authorities from many
different countries. It reviews past and current work on the
animal-oriented aspects of the utilization of feedstuffs derived
from salt tolerant and halophytic plants. It brings to the reader
(scientist, researcher, academics and their students, policy
makers, and livestock operators) an up-to-date analysis of the
important issues related to salt-rich feedstuffs (nutrition,
productivity, and reproduction).
This book Drylands: Biodiversity, Conservation and Management,
edited by Victor R. Squires, Mahesh K. Gaur and Salah Attia Ismail,
fills a gap in the literature admirably. It gets away from 'species
lists' and designation of species and habitats as 'endangered' or
'at risk'. Instead, it opens up discussion on a range of issues
relating to the important matters of biodiversity, land management
and efforts at conservation (wise use) of natural resources that
support an area's biodiversity. Dryland ecologists, land use change
specialists, policy makers from UN agencies or from bilateral and
multilateral donors and other natural resource management agencies
will find the book very useful. It is also a valuable reference
book for university students in ecology, geography, environmental
studies and development studies in general. Key points aProvides a
synoptic overview of the current problems and prospects for
biodiversity conservation in a changing world based on a focus on
selected ecosystems across Africa, Asia and the Middle East
aDiscusses the path forward to maintain and improve dryland
ecosystems, conserve biodiversity and achieve land protection This
edited volume is devoted to the examination of the implications of
the inevitable changes wrought by global change on the welfare and
livelihoods of tens of millions of people who live in
dryland-dominated regions on all continents except Antarctica.
Global change is more than just climate change. The shift to the
market economy and demographic factors (population growth,
urbanization and resettlement) receive attention here. The
implications of change (including an analysis of the drivers of
change) and the role of humans as agents of these changes are
canvassed. Chapters by leading experts who live and work in lands
focus on examples that are drawn from a number of sources including
previously unpublished studies. The key purpose is to provide an up
to date and in-depth global overview of drylands and give readers
insights into the status of these vulnerable biomes and to alert
readers to the consequences of a loss of biodiversity to the tens
of millions of people, their livestock and the myriad of plants and
animals that make up dryland ecosystems across the globe.
Maintenance of biodiversity ensures the continued flow of
ecosystems' goods and services on which most of us depend!
This multi-author book by experts in Central Asia draws together
the key issues that confront the peoples of these lands as the New
Silk Road takes shape. The Editors provide an overview of
information and background about rangelands, grasslands and
pasturelands in nine Silk Road countries as well as their
productivity and ecological function. The authors discuss the
status, future prospects and strategies to achieve sustainable
management of rangelands and grasslands in the context of the
infrastructure developments and other New Silk Road building
activities in Central Asia. They identify problems and hazards
associated with global change, including climate change in Silk
Road countries. This book will act as a vehicle to promote
knowledge useful for managing rangelands, grasslands and pasture
lands along the Silk Road, from Mongolia in the East to Iran in the
West. No region of the world has such vast and largely undeveloped
areas of land that is so strategically placed between Europe to the
west, Asia to the east, and Russia acting as huge presence to the
north. For ages, these vast lands have been the conduit through
which trade, commerce, learning and religious beliefs have spread.
For millennia, the resource base (rivers, lakes, and various types
of land including vast steppes, grasslands and other forms of
rangelands) have supported lives and livelihoods of millions of
people, as goods and ideas flowed in both directions along the vast
network of trade routes that came to be known as the Silk Road. In
the past, there have been many challenges, not the least of which
was the issue of distance (over 6000 km. from China to the eastern
edge Europe). In modern times, there has been a renewed interest in
these vast lands that contain the worlds highest mountains, some of
the driest deserts and provide sustenance for millions of people
and their livestock as well as an irreplaceable wealth of plant and
animal diversity. Accelerated economic activity, which is mainly
infrastructure development (pipelines, highways, railways), is both
a threat and an opportunity especially when set against a
background of global change, including climatic shifts that
threaten water supplies and livelihoods on a scale never before
experienced. The focus of the authors' is on the extensive
rangelands and grasslands, as well as the peoples whose livelihoods
depend on the development of sustainable land management. In
particular, they analyse and provide commentary of the
transformative adaptations that are required if the Silk Road and
its inhabitants are to survive into the twenty-second century and
beyond.
The mid-latitude regions of the world are those with the
greatest development of agriculture industry, and with burgeoning
demands on natural resources. Management of the rivers and the
surrounding landscape is one of the important tasks for today and
for the foreseeable future. Lessons learned from centuries of
management (and mismanagement) have been distilled into principles
and practices which form the subject matter for this book. It
provides both a global perspective and an entree to the special
problems associated with management of transboundary rivers."
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