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Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable Development (EEEB G4136)Guest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants (03)

Pastoral Systems in the Tropics

Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03

Livestock production systemswith large herbivores

Specialised intensive systems

Feedlot systemsLandless, urban systemsTree crop and plantation systemsPastoral systems

Mixed farming systems

Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03

Specialised intensive systems

Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03

Mixed farming systems

Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03

Feedlot systems

Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03

Landless, urban systems

Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03

Landless, urban systems

Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03Tree crop and plantation systems

Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03Agro-pastoral systems

Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03Pastoral systems

Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03

Worldwide distribution of crops and pastures as the base for livestock production systems

Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03

Density of total ruminant livestock [TLU]

Source: International Livestock Research Institute (2003)

Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03

Presence of photosyntheticallyactive vegetation observed at

different times of the year in the old world, mapped using

NOAA satellite data

January 1998

July 1999

Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03

Seasonal forage availability on a semi-arid dwarf shrub / annual grass land in

Northern Kenya:a) At the end of the rainy season;

standing biomass ca 3000 kg/hab) Six weeks after the rainy season;

standing biomass ca 1800 kg/hac) Ten weeks after the rainy season and

after two weeks of grazing by nomadic herds; standing biomass ca 500 kg/ha

a) b)

c)

Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03

Spatial variation of rainfall in an East African savannaecosystem

Source: Deshmukh, 1984

Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03

Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03

Rendille, a pastoral people

Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03

Equator

Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03

Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03

Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03

Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03

Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03

Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03

Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03

[Years]

[Total number]

Projected herd growth in indigenoussheep, goats, cattle and dromedaries

0

100

150

200

Goats Sheep Cattle Camels

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03

Seasonal distribution of births in dromedary herds kept by nomadicpastoralists in Northern Kenya and Central Somalia and on commercial

ranches in Kenya

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec0

10

20

30

40 Northern Kenya*Kenya Ranches*Central Somalia**

Northern Kenya* 20 14 6 9 2 3 5 16 25Kenya Ranches* 10 8 9 8 6 7 7 7 9 8 11 10Central Somalia** 4 3 1 25 38 17 5 3 4

Sources: *Schwartz, 1992; ** Moallin, 1989

% c

alve

sbo

rn

Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03

Rainy season

Dry season

Increasing grid occupancy

Grid occupancy by Rendille households and herds(% of total) in two seasons

Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03

Rendille settlement density by grid square in South-West Marsabit District, Kenya 1949 - 1958

Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03

Rendille settlement density by grid square in South-West Marsabit District,Kenya 1970 - 1981

Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03

Range condition by grid square in the Rendille home range

Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03

Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03

Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03

Faculty of Agriculture and HorticultureLivestock Ecology Section

Prof. Dr. sc. agr. H. J. Schwartz

Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable DevelopmentGuest lecture: Livestock systems – Ruminants 03