Silvopastoral system restoration under changing climate and land use: improving sustainability and efficiency

Travelling workshop was conducted during 19–21 October 2022 with total number of 124 participants including farmers from Oued Sbaihia and Gueffaya, Tunisia, experts from ICARDA, the General Directorate of Forests, and the Higher School of Agriculture of Mateur. The main objective of the traveling workshop was to increase awareness of farmers about sustainable silvopastoral restoration under changing climate and land use. Specific objectives include 1) demonstrate best practices for introducing forage legume species (sulla), multi-purposes shrub/tree and grazing management and 2) distribute sulla seeds to interested farmers. This travelling workshop was organized to be interactive and to share knowledge, lessons learnt and good practice, and of the kinds of problems which farmers face. Based on the discussion among the involved stakeholders’ recommendations were made

استعادة المنظومات الغابية الرعوية لزيادة المرونة والإنتاجية بتونس

The UNEP Regional Office for West Asia and the FAO Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa conducted a series of webinars under UN Decade for Ecosystem Restoration to prevent, halt and reverse degradation in ecosystems worldwide with the following objectives: to raise awareness on the need for solutions to common problems of degradation and destruction of ecosystems in the Middle East and North Africa region; to strengthen knowledge dissemination by sharing and exchanging best restoration practices; to enhance capacities; and to build a community of practice in the region over the Decade and beyond. This Presentation was performed during the Restoring degraded forests and landscapes in drylands webinar under about the impact of agrosilvopastoral systems restoration to enhance productivity and promote the resilience and sustainably in Tunisia

Improving Forage Production Quantity and Quality Using Native Legume Species in Semi-arid Agrosilvopastoral System

Agrosilvopastoral systems provide a range of livelihood services, either directly through forage production or indirectly by the beneficial effects on soil conservation, nutrient cycling, pollutant filtering, and biodiversity enhancement. Hence, improved silvopastoral systems have ample scope to rehabilitate degraded pastures to sustain livestock production, which remains a strong pillar for the livelihoods of the agrosilvopastoral communities. To evaluate the impact of Hedysarum coronarium L. (sulla) reseeding on pasture productivity, plant cover and plant density in semi-arid silvopastoral systems, an experiment was carried out in Sbaihia Site, Zaghouan Governorate, Tunisia during 2018-2019 growing season. The experiment was laid out under a randomized complete block design having 3 treatments including reseeding sulla; protection from grazing and control (free grazing) with three replications per treatment. Preliminary results showed that there were significant differences (p<0.05) among the three treatments. Reseeded sulla and protected plots recorded 100% plant cover while the control plots had less than 60%. The estimated biomass for the reseeded plots was four times higher than the biomass production in the protected plots and eleven times higher than the control plots. The highest plant density was recorded in the reseeded plots (163.2 plants/m2), followed by the protected plots (30.6 plants/m2) while the lowest value was recorded in the control plots (29.8 plants/m2). Based on these findings, it is concluded that reseeding well-adapted native forage species has a great potential to improve productivity of semiarid silvopastoral systems, which would contribute towards reducing the feeding cost and, therefore, enhancing the income of the agrosilvopastoral communitie

Sustainable silvopastoral restoration to promote ecosystem services in Tunisia

this chapter is describing the The silvopastoral improvement accomplished in the region of Sbaihia, Tunisia thet relies on a sound participatory approach with full cooperation from the local population who contributed to the main decisions implemented onsite