Guidelines for Grazing and Livestock Monitoring

By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

This document is one of seven sets of guidelines developed to provide standards and recommendations for the integrated management of the country’s natural assets. The Guidelines for Grazing and Livestock Monitoring offer a methodology, sets of indicators and a framework to holistically and coherently assess these two variables, livestock and steppe productivity. They are addressed to decision-makers, staff of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF), national and regional grazing management plan authorities, local and regional institutions who will participate in monitoring, shepherds and any other relevant stakeholders.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• Release date: May 16, 2022
• ISBN: 9789251361931

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations and acronyms

Executive summary

Introduction

Chapter 1. Monitoring framework for livestock and grassland productivity

1.1 Approach

1.1.1 Monitoring complexity

1.1.2 Indicators

1.2. Monitoring process

1.2.1. Design

1.2.2. Implementation

1.2.3. Compilation and documentation of data

1.3. Design model for grassland productivity

1.3.1. Step 1: identifying the ecoregion

1.3.2. Step 2: land use states, functional groups, transitions and tools

1.3.3. Step 3: reference area

1.3.4. Step 4: scorecards and the ecological health index

1.3.5. Additional remarks

Chapter 2. Monitoring livestock

2.1. Macro-level monitoring

2.1.1. Role and function of management

2.1.2. Indicators

2.1.3. Data gathering