Coping Strategies During Drought: The Case of Rangeland Users in Southwest Iran

Moghaddas Farimani, Shahram; Raufirad, Valiollah; Hunter, Richard; Lebailly, Philippe

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Coping Strategies During Drought: The Case of Rangeland Users in Southwest Iran

Moghaddas Farimani, Shahram; Raufirad, Valiollah; Hunter, Richard et al.

2017 • In Rangelands, 39 (5), p. 133-142

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Sustainable rangeland management; Rangeland improvement; Indigenous knowledge; Stocking rate; Grazing capacity; Drought; Iran

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[en] This study assesses the drought coping strategies of rangeland users (RUs) in Fars province in southwest Iran. Our findings reveal that in the RUs’ experience, the most effective drought coping strategies include reducing stocking rates and the gradual reduction of inefficient, old, and sick livestock. The data also indicate that RUs promote rangeland resilience during a drought through range protection/ exclosures, seeding, and broadcast seeding. This study therefore suggests that the indigenous knowledge of RUs could improve existing training and extension programs by providing localized environmental contexts for developing coping strategies before, during, and after drought

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Agriculture & agronomy

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Moghaddas Farimani, Shahram

Raufirad, Valiollah

Hunter, Richard

Lebailly, Philippe ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Agronomie, Bio-ingénierie et Chimie (AgroBioChem) > Modélisation et développement

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English

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Coping Strategies During Drought: The Case of Rangeland Users in Southwest Iran

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2017

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Rangelands

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0190-0528

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Allen Press Publishing Services Inc.

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133-142

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