The relationship between livestock production and climate change is the subject of hot
debate, with arguments for major shifts in diets and a reduction in livestock production. This …

Grazing represents the most extensive use of land worldwide. Yet its impacts on ecosystem
services remain uncertain because pervasive interactions between grazing pressure …

An understanding of traditional ecological knowledge systems is increasingly acknowledged
as a means of helping to develop global, regional and national, but locally relevant policies …

The divergence between agricultural water use and the annual supply of water resources
(water gap) has been increasing for decades. The forecast is that this water gap will …

Implications Meat production is often listed among the largest contributors to climate change,
and is usually associated with biodiversity damage, feed-food competition, and water …

Vulnerability analysis is important for enhancing sustainability, especially for highly
interlinked pastoral socio-ecological systems. This study presents a modified …

Grazing by domestic livestock is both the main land use across drylands worldwide and a
major desertification and global change driver. The ecological consequences of this key …

Abstract Globally, around 0.78 billion rural people live in close proximity to forests and have
been considered “forest-dwelling” and/or “forest dependent”. Forest dependency has so far …

The research question that drives this research is what kind of marketing can we imagine in
a future in which the capitalist market economy is dethroned from its dominant position? The …

Knowing the carrying capacity of the Earth's grazed ecosystems, and the relevance of
herbivory, is important for many scientific disciplines, as well as for policy. Current herbivore …