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Rangelands of Libya, The

Publication Year:
2024
Edition:
1st
Author:
Gintzburger, Gustave; Saïdi, Slim
Publisher:
CAB International
ISBN:
978-1-80-062713-0
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Libya remains a land of mysteries with a harsh arid climate, a land rich in millenaries of troubled history, a land where the Sahara meet the Mediterranean Sea, a land where the West and the East Mediterranean merge, and this book reviews the past and current environmental and agricultural condition of the Libyan rangelands with example of how territories and resources are used by tribal communities.

Libya is also a land where the desert and the sown intermingle in the steppe country where the rainfall is unpredictable, the soils are poor, rocky, saline, rendering rainfed cultivation hazardous, where grazing and rainfed cropping remained for long the only viable agricultural options. Over the past 60 years, oil resources allowed gigantic agricultural development projects, urbanization, road network expansion and well drilling. This changed the ways of life of rural populations, impacting and undoubtedly altering rangelands conditions and systems, as well as native vegetation cover, wildlife and land use.

This book describes, explains and illustrates the landscapes, the vegetation, the wildlife, the rainfed cereal systems and livestock systems, the reasons for the rampant overstocking, the relentless land clearing for hazardous cropping and uncertain irrigation projects, the wild fuelwood collection and charcoal manufacturing, triggering land degradation and desertification. Long-tested rangeland recovery and rehabilitation techniques in Libya are reviewed using appropriate plant material and proven establishment techniques with successes and failures assessed.

This book is offered in hopes of a better future for the Libyan people and the whole Mediterranean arid regions from Morocco to Pakistan.
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Platform:
OvidSP
Publisher:
CAB International
Product Type:
Book
Author:
Gintzburger, Gustave; Saïdi, Slim
ISBN:
978-1-80-062713-0
Specialty:
  • Agriculture
  • Earth & Geological Sciences
  • Rural Studies
Language:
English
Edition:
1st
Pages:
680
Publication Year:
2024

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