Scholars, politicians, practitioners, and civil society increasingly call for sustainability
transformations to cope with urgent social and environmental challenges. In sustainability …

Rangelands cover more of Earth's land surface than any other type of land. They have
variable and harsh climates, are sparsely populated and remote from markets, produce …

Local knowledge has been proposed as a place‐based tool to ground‐truth climate models
and to narrow their geographic sensitivity. To assess the potential role of local knowledge in …

Many studies show that semi-arid rangelands throughout the world have been rapidly
converted from a grassland state to a bush encroachment state during the past 50 years …

The proliferation of woody plants has been observed on rangelands globally and has
significant impacts on subsistence livestock production. However, adaptation strategies to …

The current degradation crisis in arid and semiarid lands is creating severe economic and
social difficulties, aggravating the food situation and greatly affecting the least developed …

Recording local ecological knowledge (LEK) is a useful approach to understanding
interactions of the complex social-ecological systems. In spite of the recent growing interest …

This article reviews the critical role of cattle and beef production, consumption practices, and
symbolic values, among other elements, in instituting Botswana's beef heritage. The rise of …

Land degradation in communal rangelands poses significant challenges to environmental
sustainability, agricultural productivity, and livelihoods in southern Africa. This study …

Despite the importance of local ecological knowledge of forage plants, there has been little
discussion on how local agro-pastoralists perceive forage species diversity, abundance …