The journal of Rangelands announces the special feature on Grazinglands and Greenhouse Gases (GL-CRSP 3G project) on the back cover of the Volume 30, Number 3, June 2008 issue due for publication in the journal of Rangeland Ecology & Management. Jay Angerer, GL-CRSP Project Coordinator for the GOBI Forage project in Mongolia and Principal Investigator for the Mali Livestock & Pastoralist Initiative (MLPI), is also a contributing author to this issue of Rangelands.
Front and back covers of Rangelands, Vol. 30, No. 3, June 2008. Image printed with permission from Allen Press Publishing Services.
Rangelands, covering approximately one-fifth of the earth’s surface, are ill-suited for crop production yet they possess extraordinary capacity for livestock production, providing the main source of forage for livestock, and thus, a subsistence base for some of the world’s most disadvantaged communities. In addition to their productive capacity, rangelands also have the potential to be net sources, or sinks, of greenhouse gases, and if incorporated into a carbon exchange market, can significantly enhance livelihoods and promote sound ecological management practices.
Resulting from research conducted by the completed GL-CRSP projects, Livestock Development and Rangeland Conservation Tools for Central Asia (LDRCT) and Co-Benefits of Grassland Regeneration of Abandoned Wheat Areas for Carbon Sequestration, the GL-CRSP Grazinglands and Greenhouse Gases (3G) project is producing a scientific volume for the journal of Rangeland Ecology & Management that helps managers and development specialists incorporate rangeland and pasture conservation and management projects as candidates for generation of carbon credits. The volume is schedule for publication in the fall of 2008. For more on the GL-CRSP 3G project, please visit: GL-CRSP 3G project
Click here to download the Summer 2008 issue of Ruminations, the GL-CRSP newsletter, where you will find articles on the 3G project and MLPI, as well as other GL-CRSP announcements and recent news.
