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- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management, the National Agricultural Library, and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Rangelands…Publication Date 1980-02-01
- cropland
- resource
- nature
- grazing animals
- food production
- pasture
- forage
- rangelands
- agriculture
- range
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management, the National Agricultural Library, and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Rangelands…Publication Date 1981-04-01
- grazing management systems
- range improvements
- Soviet Union
- farming
- seeding
- forage
- rangelands
- research
- agriculture
- productivity
- grazing
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management, the National Agricultural Library, and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Rangelands…Publication Date 1983-02-01
- range
- range management
- range resources
- image
- multiple uses
- funding
- agriculture
- range managers
- technology
- education
- wildlife
- research
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management, the National Agricultural Library, and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Rangelands…Publication Date 1993-04-01
- history
- Missouri
- natural resources
- geology
- mining
- agriculture
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from…Publication Date 2005-10-01
- rural society
- sociodemographic characteristics
- deserts
- cattle
- grazing
- agriculture
- Pakistan
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not availablePublication Date 1993
- history
- Missouri
- natural resources
- geology
- mining
- agriculture
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management, the National Agricultural Library, and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Rangelands…Publication Date 1988-06-01
- history
- Minnesota
- urban areas
- agriculture
- rural urban relations
- economic geography
- cities
- agribusiness
- agricultural development
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not availablePublication Date 1993
- history
- Missouri
- natural resources
- geology
- mining
- agriculture
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not availablePublication Date 1981
- Soviet Union
- farming
- forage
- rangelands
- research
- agriculture
- productivity
- grazing
- grazing management systems
- range improvements
- seeding
- Library Collection RecordRaptors are an important component of prairie ecosystems. I examined the effects of grassland conversion to agricultural fields on densities of nesting prairie hawks. Densities of Swainson's…Publication Date 1987-09-01
- hawks
- habitat destruction
- agriculture
- conversion
- cultivation
- population density
- Alberta
- prairies
- Library Collection RecordGrass and cattle are an important part of Panama agriculture. Ninety percent of all grassland contains one or more introduced grasses. Brush control, fire control, and improvement in grass and…Publication Date 1968-07-01
- calf crops
- parasites
- Panama
- Fire Control
- Feed Conditions
- Low Quality Animals
- livestock management
- La Ganaderia
- Resumen
- Native Grazing Plants
- livestock operations
- introduced grasses
- Grazing Practices
- ecology
- beef production
- disease
- grass
- improvement
- yields
- cattle
- dry seasons
- brush control
- ranching
- agriculture
- Library Collection RecordThis is a critique of the address by Charles J. Zwick. Clearly defining the nature of the fee problem is essential. Ranching is part of agriculture, and grazing fees should be considered as part of…Publication Date 1966-09-01
- public lands
- private lands
- applications
- problems
- ranching
- Value
- investment
- agriculture
- policy
- cooperation
- Critique
- Charles J. Zwick
- Fee Problem
- Diplomacy
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Journal of Range Management archives are made…Publication Date 1952-03-01
- Bert C. Buffum
- South Bend
- Indiana
- Buckhorn
- Colorado Agricultural College
- Dry Farming Congress
- Horticulture
- Arid Agriculture
- The Ranchman's Reminder
- Castilleia buffumi
- Anogra buffumi
- Wild Primrose
- wild plants
- Aven Nelson
- range manager
- Paintbrush
- Buchloe dactyloides
- native grasses
- buffalo grass
- Wyoming
- range management
- agriculture
- Colorado
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Journal of Range Management archives are made…Publication Date 1953-01-01
- collaboration
- water conservation
- Sixth International Grassland Congress
- United Nations
- United States Government
- FAO
- meetings
- animal production
- farming
- animal products
- soil conservation
- land use
- weed control
- reseeding
- range improvement
- Food and Agriculture Organization
- livestock
- agriculture
- management
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Journal of Range Management archives are made…Publication Date 1961-11-01
- forestry
- Range Curricula
- Course Titles
- Credit Values
- Subject Matter Outlines
- University
- State University
- State College
- Texas A&M
- Natural Sciences
- English
- Social Sciences
- Wildland Uses
- Majors
- watersheds
- improvement
- surveys
- economics
- multiple use
- conditions
- techniques
- planning
- wildlife
- South Dakota
- plants
- Washington
- Idaho
- Oregon
- conservation
- Wyoming
- California
- range management
- education
- Montana
- agriculture
- Nevada
- Utah
- New Mexico
- Arizona
- Colorado
- management
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Journal of Range Management archives are made…Publication Date 1954-07-01
- Pests
- Pasture Products
- improved pastures
- Hill Country Pastures
- sown pastures
- native grasslands
- Preadtors
- pig
- roads
- tracks
- Potash
- Crop Improvement
- vegetative cover
- New Zealand
- soil
- legumes
- soil fertility
- fencing
- livestock
- sheep
- cattle
- production
- fertilization
- forage
- feed
- erosion
- agriculture
- grasslands
- management
- Library Collection RecordA new University research project seeks to obtain information on the costs and returns of cattle ranches in central Idaho. A business analysis of these ranches will help all cattlemen in Idaho to…Publication Date 1962
- agriculture
- Idaho
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 1970
- pasture management
- agriculture
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis article is a world-wide overview of plant domestication and the origins of agriculture. It focuses on the archaeological record: the what, where, and when of these processes, with a brief…Publication Date 2008
- agriculture
- China
- crops
- domestication
- eastern North America
- Formative
- Maize (corn)
- Mesoamerica
- Near East
- Neolithic
- New Guinea
- Rice
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- South America
- Southeast Asia
- wheat
- palaeobotany
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe tropics cover 8.2 billion hectares or approximately 40% of the world's land area. These regions are characterized by a large portion of the world's rapidly increasing population, high…Publication Date 2002
- carbon dioxide
- carbon dynamics
- carbon sequestration
- Carbon Sink
- greenhouse gases
- climate change
- soils
- socio-economic aspects
- land use
- agriculture
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordA thorough understanding of the behavior of fire in grasslands is critical to the minimization of the impact of fires on agricultural and pastoral land as well as the successful management of the…Publication Date 2010
- fire
- grasslands
- management
- species richness
- climate change
- fire ecology
- agriculture
- pastoralism
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary 10.1002/9780470292136.ch4.abs This chapter contains sections titled: * Objectives for This Chapter * Introduction * Factors Influencing the Agricultural Use of Animals * Animal Distribution…Publication Date 2008
- food production
- physiological adaptation
- buffalo
- livestock
- veterinary service
- agriculture
- management
- sustainability
- animal production
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordNo Abstract available.Publication Date 2003
- grasslands
- management
- agriculture
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordNo abstract available.Publication Date 1970
- pasture management
- agriculture
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary The savanna biome is diverse, including formations ranging from almost treeless grasslands to more or less closed-canopy woodlands with considerable variation in plant composition, biomass,…Publication Date 2001
- savanna
- animal production
- plant production
- plant community ecology
- land use
- degradation
- agriculture
- ecology
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe world population has increased from 2–10 million at the dawn of settled agriculture about 10–12 millennium ago to 6.5 billion in 2006, and may stabilize at 10–12 billion by 2100. Most of…Publication Date 2007
- socio-economic aspects
- agriculture
- pastoralism
- soils
- management
- plant production
- animal production
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordTransformation of indigenous vegetation for production purposes impacts negatively on biodiversity but does this necessarily equate with a decrease in phytomass accumulation, which may influence…Publication Date 2008
- grasslands
- plant production
- carbon sequestration
- land use
- management
- conservation
- agriculture
- pasture management
- biodiversity
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Anthropogenic perturbations have profoundly modified the Earth's biogeochemical cycles, the most prominent of these changes being manifested by global carbon (C) cycling. We…Publication Date 2007
- carbon sequestration
- 13C NMR
- deforestation
- land-use change
- NEXAFS
- organic matter composition
- Sr-FTIR-ATR
- synchrotron radiation
- land use
- grasslands
- vegetation dynamics
- carbon dynamics
- soil organic carbon
- agriculture
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn Kenya, lands surrounding wildlife protected areas (PAs), referred to as dispersal areas, have undergone widespread land use changes, but these have been little studied. This study investigated…Publication Date 2008
- conservation
- agriculture
- national parks
- land use
- grazing
- biodiversity
- disturbance
- rainfall
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe paper brings to the fore a plethora of proven successes in agriculture and land management in Sub-Saharan Africa over the past 4 decades. Cases can be grouped into those based on agricultural…Publication Date 2008
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- agriculture
- land management
- soil and water conservation
- success
- management
- conservation
- soils
- water use efficiency
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSemi-arid areas are often considered to be environmentally and economically marginal, a situation which has been exacerbated by economic change, shifts in agricultural production and land use, and…Publication Date 2008
- Dry land degradation
- Economic decline
- Livestock trends
- population change
- Small towns
- rangelands
- Economic Aspects
- livestock
- agriculture
- socio-economic aspects
- politics
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordNo abstract availablePublication Date 2007
- agriculture
- soils
- Soil Condition
- grazing
- rangeland condition
- ecosystem dynamics
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordWe use the concept of ecological revolutions to explain the environmental history of Namaqualand, from the advent of pastoralism 2000 years BP, to colonial settlement in the 18th century and finally…Publication Date 2007
- degradation
- Environmental history
- human impact
- population
- repeat photography
- socio-economic aspects
- agriculture
- grazing
- management
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPrecision agriculture (PA) is an innovative, int+O101egrated and internationally standardized approach aiming to increase the efficiency of resource use and to reduce the uncertainty of decisions…Publication Date 2008
- precision agriculture
- grassland
- Perspectives
- Constraints
- interdisciplinary research
- grasslands
- remote sensing
- plant production
- Economic Aspects
- agriculture
- decision support systems
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordCrop and rangelands are over 25% of the Earth's land area, and they are expanding. Agricultural ecosystems rely on a suite of supporting ecosystem services to provide food, fiber and fuel as…Publication Date 2007
- ecosystem services
- agriculture
- Nonmarket valuation
- research needs
- soil fertility
- policies
- Economic Aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe soil's resistance to concentrated flow erosion is an important factor for predicting rill and (ephemeral) gully erosion rates. While it is often treated as a calibration parameter in process…Publication Date 2007
- soil erosion resistance
- critical shear stress
- soil erodibility
- concentrated flow
- flume experiments
- soil properties
- tillage practices
- soil erosion
- Soil Condition
- runoff
- agriculture
- no-till
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordWater erosion creates negative impacts on agricultural production, infrastructure, and water quality across the world. Regional-scale water erosion assessment is important, but limited by data…Publication Date 2006
- Review
- land degradation
- soil erosion
- remote sensing
- modelling
- Validation
- degradation
- agriculture
- plant production
- animal production
- satellite imagery
- monitoring
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAdequate water supplies are essential to efficient livestock production. In many areas livestock are in conflict with crops for water and for key areas of use. Both surface and underground sources…Publication Date 2007
- Livestock drinking water
- Resource conflict
- Organization and management of water
- participation
- Cost recovery
- hydrology
- agriculture
- livestock
- socio-economic aspects
- policies
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change allows a country that emits C above agreed-upon limits to purchase C offsets…Publication Date 2007
- soil carbon
- carbon sequestration
- Carbon markets
- carbon credits
- poverty reduction
- drylands
- West Africa
- climate change
- greenhouse gases
- agriculture
- Economic Aspects
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordClimate is one of the most important factors determining the sustainability of agricultural production systems. More emphasis must be placed on understanding the influence of changing climate…Publication Date 2007
- sustainable agriculture
- climate variability
- climate change
- Agricultural weather policy
- climate
- agriculture
- animal production
- plant production
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Highveld region in South Africa is an important area for its food production for the nation, as 70% of country's cereal crops and 90% of the commercially grown maize is cultivated there. The…Publication Date 2008
- Agro-ecosystem
- climate change
- sustainability
- food security
- South Africa
- agriculture
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSlash-and-burn agriculture (tavy) is the major cause of upland degradation and deforestation in eastern Madagascar. Upland degradation studies are largely based on floristic loss and have ignored the…Publication Date 2007
- Tavy
- Betsimisaraka
- Vegetation succession
- Agricultural productivity
- biodiversity
- Upland rice
- degradation
- species richness
- agriculture
- subsistence agriculture
- management
- fire
- household income studies
- traditional knowledge
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe global farming systems (GFS) approach is extended by adding a soil fertility and nutrient management dimension for Africa's forest-based, maize mixed, cereal-root crop mixed, and agro-…Publication Date 2006
- soil fertility
- Nutrient stocks
- Nutrient flows
- Integrated nutrient management
- farming systems
- indicators
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- agriculture
- management
- soils
- socio-economic aspects
- food security
- policies
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSuccess in long-term agricultural production in resource-poor farming systems relies on the efficiency with which nutrients are conserved and recycled. Each transfer of nutrients across the farming…Publication Date 2006
- cattle
- Compost
- feed intake
- manure
- nitrogen use efficiency
- N losses
- agriculture
- soil nutrients
- management
- communal farming
- livestock
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis 556-page book examines current grassland problems and issues, and provides an insight into grassland productivity in diverse areas of the world. There is a focus on recent technical advances and…Publication Date 2005
- grasslands
- foraging ecology
- agriculture
- climate change
- biodiversity
- GIS
- pastoralism
- Sustainable development
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordResearch on the effects of ozone on agricultural crops and agro-ecosystems is needed for the development of regional emission reduction strategies, to underpin practical recommendations aiming to…Publication Date 2003
- Tropospheric ozone
- Ozone flux
- Ozone risk assessment
- detoxification
- Antioxidants
- Agricultural crops
- grassland
- climate change
- agriculture
- modelling
- plant production
- ecosystem ecology
- carbon dioxide
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordRiver salination due to dryland agriculture was studied between 1985 and 1986 in the 150-km2 large catchment of the Sandspruit river, a tributary of the Berg river in the semi-arid Western Cape…Publication Date 1995
- agriculture
- hydrology
- rainfall
- modelling
- soils
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordRainfall variability is a key constraint to agricultural production, livelihoods and economic growth in many developing countries. This is likely to be exacerbated in many places as rainfall…Publication Date 2011
- agriculture
- water storage
- Poverty
- Rural
- socio-economic aspects
- climate change
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe relevance of land-use planning tools such as the Land Use and Allocation Plan (LUAP)is more than ever a necessity to face challenges of natural resources degradation (water, soil and forest) the…Publication Date 2011
- socio-economic aspects
- degradation
- agriculture
- biodiversity
- climate change
- food security
- Senegal
- Senegal
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe agricultural component of the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) programme in Ghana, consistent with the country's Food and Agriculture Sector Development Policy (FASDEP) promotes the…Publication Date 2012
- Tobit regression
- commercialization
- agriculture
- smallholder farmers
- subsistence agriculture
- Economic Aspects
- policies
- North Africa
- Ghana