Intensification of Brazilian cattle ranching systems has attracted both national and international attention due to its direct relation with Amazon deforestation on the one hand and increasing demand of the global population for meat on the other. Since Brazilian cattle ranching is predominantly pasture-based, we particularly focus on pasture management. We summarize the most recurrent opportun...

The goal of this paper is to explain why and how increasing commoditization incorporation in the market economy are only now leading a critical transition from pastoralism ranching Central Africa. While there similarities between capitalism—in both systems, entrepreneurs strategically maximizing their “stock”—there also differences. We argue that these differences can be understood as two disti...

10 Environmentalists, scientists, and land managers have long debated the role of ranching in landscape conservation with some contending that ranching represents the major threat to ecological systems, while others believe it is key to long-term conservation. We contrast the impacts of livestock grazing with those of the major alternative land use at this time, suburban and ex-urban developmen...

Extreme droughts like the recent 2011–2013 drought impacting the central and western United States present a challenge to sustaining livestock ranching operations and the ecosystem goods and services they produce. Wyoming ranchers manage half of this drought-prone state and are at the forefront of this challenge. We examined Wyoming ranchers’ drought management strategies and how ranch characte...

Coyote (Car1i.s1ntran.s)depredation is a chronic problem for sheep producers in the western United States. Due to increasingly localized control efforts, behaxior of individual coyotes in sheep-ranching entironments is becoming a more important consideration. We radiotracked 14 coyotes on a year-round sheep-ranching facility in north-coastal California during September 1993-December 1995. Breed...

Harvesting of wild ruminants occurs to an appreciable extent in several countries, but the potential world production of meat from these animals is greatly in excess of the current yield. Any increase in the utilization of this important source of protein may be obtained by either an increase in the cropping of present animal systems or through the introduction of changes such as those imposed ...

To investigate the fishery community structure in spring at early stage of construction Tangshan Marine Ranching, China. This study analyzed relationship between species composition, diversity and resources marine ranching using survey data from March, April, May 2017. The results showed that a total 53 organisms occurred waters inside outside reef area pasture. Among them, 20 fish were among c...