Pub Date : 2024-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.rala.2024.08.001
Ahmed Ibrahim Awale
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Pastoralism, which is the chief mainstay for most of the population in the Somali region of the Horn of Africa, has witnessed sweeping changes. These changes are characterized by weakening resilience due to a combination of climate-induced challenges and anthropogenic factors, including overgrazing, deforestation, land-use changes, loss of soil fertility, and proliferation of invasive species.
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This article provides a brief overview of rangeland management in Somalia starting from the colonial days until the collapse of the central government in 1991. The period that followed until 2016, which covers the years of self-declared independence of Somaliland up to the re-establishment of Aroori Grazing Reserve (AGR), was characterized by low investment in natural resources including agriculture, forestry, and rangelands and compounded by weak institutions due to the paucity of resources.
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I outline the key takeaways from the 2016 restoration of AGR in Somaliland, including the area's value to pastoralists as a fodder reserve for livestock during hard times brought on by prolonged droughts. I also highlight emerging trends in community-led grazing management in the form of “village grazing lots” through joint land-use planning.
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Grazing reserves serve as refuges and as tools to maintain indigenous grass biodiversity.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.rala.2024.10.001
Morgan D. Roche , Michele R. Crist , Cameron L. Aldridge , Helen R. Sofaer , Catherine S. Jarnevich , Julie A. Heinrichs
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The extent of annual grass invasions in sagebrush ecosystems has required land managers to prioritize treatments in strategic locations to influence invasion outcomes. Maps of invasive annual grass cover show the extent and severity of the invasion, but they do not illustrate how invasive cover is changing over time.
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The rate of change in invasive annual grass cover describes the trajectory of invasion. This information can be used to fine-tune priority locations and strategies for invasive species treatments.
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We identified locations with positive, neutral, negative, and variable rates of change. Although rates of change have accelerated, there were many locations with a consistent neutral rate of change in cover. High positive rates of change frequently preceded high invasive annual grass cover, and locations that had low cover rarely had a history of high positive rates of change.
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We identified potential management opportunities by combining rates of change in cover and percent cover data, illustrating both invasion severity and trajectory. We applied these potential opportunities to a map of the sagebrush biome using example thresholds. This map identifies locations that could be prioritized for different management goals and shows how those areas align with the Sagebrush Conservation Design management framework.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.rala.2024.08.002
Hussein M. Sulieman , Maryam Niamir-Fuller
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The traditional cultivation of wild melon varieties to feed and water animals during the dry season has proven to be economically sound and environmentally sustainable.
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The practice is an example of mutual benefit and cooperation between settled agropastoral communities and mobile transhumant pastoralists.
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Although the practice of cultivating local melon varieties to feed animals appears to be currently thriving, it might become endangered in the future because of the introduction of mechanization of crop farming as well as the increasing cultivation of hybrid melons that have brought new pests and diseases.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.rala.2024.06.002
Caley K. Gasch , Katherine Kral-O'Brien
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We created a mentoring and support group for women students, staff, and faculty in our academic unit.
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The group met monthly to explore aspects of professional development, academic culture, workplace interactions, and work–life management.
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Participants agreed involvement in the group was a positive experience.
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We share summaries of the activities and topics the group addressed, and we encourage other agencies and institutions to consider forming women-focused mentoring programs.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.rala.2024.05.005
Alia N. DeLong , Claire Friedrichsen , Elizabeth H. Boughton , Hilary Swain , Maria Silveira, , Brent Sellers
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Rapid changes in science require rapid development of solutions. Working with diverse groups of stakeholders is important for developing robust research programs.
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Collaborative production (or coproduction) of knowledge can integrate multiple sources of knowledge from stakeholder groups such as farmers and ranchers, service providers, technical advisors, and nonprofit representatives.
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The nominal group technique (NGT) is one tool in coproduction of knowledge and is a simple and feasible methodology rangeland scientists can adopt in complex decision-making contexts.
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The Archbold-University of Florida Long-term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) network used NGT with an advisory council of stakeholder representatives to develop priorities for their research program, particularly high-priority treatments and measurements.
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Coproduced science identifies potential solutions more quickly than any group working on their own. Researchers can use NGT during collaborative processes to incorporate multiple sources of expert knowledge to create a more complete picture of a given situation.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.rala.2024.05.004
Landon R. Schofield , Micayla E. Pearson , Samuel Newell , Nathan Clackum , Benjamin L. Turner
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Increasing concern from both private citizens and intergovernmental organizations about the effects of climate change has led to regulatory and voluntary mechanisms aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, including an emerging carbon credit market.
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Despite the opportunities for landowners to diversify revenue streams within current operations, there are risks (i.e., production and financial, market, legal-transactional, and social) that could reduce landowner enrollment rates.
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We used a systems thinking approach to map the feedback relationships among landowner decision-making considerations, soil system processes, and carbon credit market incentives.
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Our findings illustrate the complex set of constraints of participation in carbon credit programs and how they interact by revealing a limits to growth archetype.
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Landowners and crop and livestock producers are uniquely positioned to shape and develop the carbon credit market by filling the gap between equitable transaction participation for both carbon credit buyers and sellers looking to capture value from mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.
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