Livestock: how to green the world’s deserts and reverse climate change

By Craig Macaskill   Posted 2018-07-06   In Blog     Allan Savory, thinking out-of-the-box, promotes livestock as the answer to desertification and climate change. “There is only one option left to climatologists and scientists, and that is to do the unthinkable: to use livestock, bunched and moving, as a proxy for former herds and predators, and to mimic nature”. It […]

Animal husbandry

Introduction In addition to the pages in the “Livestock” section, the reader is also referred to pages elsewhere on this website like “Animal feeds”, “Animal health” and “Precision livestock farming”. The livestock sector accounts for nearly 50% of the total value of agriculture (Sihlobo, 2024; BFAP, 2021). From a food and income security point of […]