Some of these, such as Kalama, are owned by the local community and are located on former communal cattle grazing land.
Matters aren't helped, he says, by the loss of village grazing land to new, agricultural projects for growing wheat and watermelons.
Because of the different seasons, wet and dry, we moved from place to place with our animals to seek grazing land.
Maasai leaders say it means they will be evicted from their own land and will lose about 40 percent of their grazing land.
Sheep farmer John Hebditch, who farms on the Levels near North Curry, said he lost everything during the flooding, with 90% of his grazing land affected.
Right now, there are about 20, 000 in all of Greenland, but we could easily have 40, 000 with the grazing land that is now available.
The terrain was so barren that people could only survive there by roaming ceaselessly from place to place in search of water and grazing land.
Foster carers must have experience of handling horses, have available grazing land and be able to take in an animal for a minimum of six months.
The National Forest Service, from which many ranchers rent grazing land, may require them to graze fewer cattle, in order to encourage native grasses and wildlife.
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"It used to be very hard to find enough grazing land here in Greenland because grass just didn't grow here, " Frederiksen said while inspecting the new lambs.
David Haight , a 41-year-old Menlo Park, Calif. real estate investor, bought grazing land in Salt Lake City in 1994, got it rezoned for industrial use and cut a deal to sell it in 1999 to a trucking company.
In the end what makes Sanctuary Belize cool is that in the same massive development you have water front homes, savanna homes, homes with hangers (connected to an airport), equestrian homes (close to a huge stable with grazing land) and Jaguar Preserve homes in the mountains.
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Now, at 43, he and his wife, Julie , have bought two ranches in southwest Montana-the 1, 800-acre Beaverhead Ranch, with 5 miles of the Beaverhead River running through it, and the 2, 000-acre Big Hole Ranch, which rises 1, 500 feet from the Big Hole River up to grazing land for a herd of 400 elk that borders a national forest.
Land use has also changed over the last 10 years including a big fall in the number of sheep grazing the land.
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The man, Faillu Bhosle, said they had been attacked by high-caste Marathas while they were cultivating common grazing-land.
The former have accused the latter of grazing cattle on land that does not belong to them.
It's unclear what triggered the latest clashes, but the two groups have fought for years over grazing rights, land and water sources.
Ms. Johnson, 26 years old, has taken to sending email blasts to her friends from Princeton, describing a morning she spent artificially inseminating cows or explaining how grazing helps ranch land thrive.
In August, the two communities clashed after members of the Orma community were accused of grazing their cattle on land that the Pokomo say is theirs.
Likewise, Congolese Tutsi businessmen serve as a Rwandan vanguard, opening up eastern Congolese land for cattle grazing and mining.
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The crofters were opposed to an extension of the course onto land they used for grazing livestock.
Only about 35 cows are needed over the winter months to continue grazing a small part of the protected land.
The proposals were for the 21 turbines to be sited over around 3, 450 acres (1, 397 hectares) of crown-owned common land mainly used for sheep grazing about nine miles (15km) north east of Carmarthen.
Imagine the government has announced it will auction an expanse of public land, and that this land is good only for sheep grazing.
Not grazing so many animals on a given patch of land would discourage transmission.
Crops, such as wheat, corn, and especially soy, have come to occupy land that was once destined to cattle grazing.
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This allows producers in these areas to apply for low-interest loans from the government, and opens up land in the conservation reserve programme for use for grazing and hay production.
The former coloniser guaranteed future land rights, but post-independence governments further restricted grazing rights and the latest proposal would remove almost 40% of Loliondo's highland prairie and forested mountains.
By distributing grazing lands to herders in the same way that it distributes crop land to farmers, China has violated the most basic tenets of pastoral ecology, ruining much of the grasslands.
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Growing crops to feed animals requires a lot more land, energy and fertilizer than growing them to feed people, he says: 70% of the land that was once Amazon rain forest is dedicated to grazing.
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