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Adapting to increased aridity in the livestock-raising community of Lepsy
Summary:
The project focuses on the pastoral community of Lepsy, in Northern Kazakhstan. The community suffers from extremely dry climate and poor pasture management. Increased aridity due to climate change and the disruption to traditional seasonal grazing have negative impacts on livestock productivity. The CBA project aims to reduce the community's vulnerability to climate change and conserve the sand pasture ecosystem. This will be achieved through the implementation of pasture management practices that maximize scarce water resources.
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Background
The community is benefitting from the implementation of pasture management practices that maximize scarce water resources. Sustainable strategies to reduce the grazing load and enable cattle distribution include:
Transferring some cattle to unused remote rangelands
Arranging seasonal pasture rotations
Optimizing water supplies through the rehabilitation of traditional wells
Ensuring optimal loads on new pastures through pastoral management agreements between the cattle owners
The project also contains an important capacity-building component that trains community members in water and pastoral resource management. Additionally, practices that best reduce climate change impacts on sandy rangelands will be disseminated among similar ecosystems in Kazakhstan, which total more than 31 million hectares.
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