1. Sokoine University of Agriculture Official Publications

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    Rangeland management practices in changing environment: implications for land use and climate change in selected African countries
    (Rangeland Society of Tanzania (RST), 2023-04) Kilemo,Dominico Benedicto
    Rangeland Management entails rangeland resource management for improved animal production and other ecosystem services. While Africa is endowed with spectacular rangelands which support biodiversity, animal production and people's livelihoods, they face pressure from anthropogenic activities such as overgrazing which leads to land degradation and conversion of rangelands into other land uses. Furthermore, the quality of pastures fed to livestock has implications on feed efficiency and methane gas emission. Rangeland management interventions which enhance the carbon sequestration function of rangelands and reduce enteric methane emission from livestock have a potential of mitigating global warming and climate change. This paper reviews different rangeland management approaches for animal production and assesses their contribution to climate change in some African countries. Such approaches include (i) Community Based Natural Resource Management; (ii) Land and water use planning; (iii) marketing and alternative income; and(iv) wildlife and nature tourism. The findings suggest that, the adoption of SRM approaches is very low with less than 25 cases across Africa. This suggests that the existing SRM interventions have had little contribution to climate change mitigation. The 74 implementation of approaches such as village land use planning, legalization of the customary land right to grazing areas, establishment of mini ranches and the establishment of improved pasture species with low GHG emission will significantly contribute to sustainable range management and climate change mitigation in Africa.