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Livestock Restoration Agriculture, GROUP NAMES: Willem, autumn, Audrée,…
Livestock Restoration Agriculture
Permaculture principles
Natural patterns
Perrenials, tree layers
Obtain a yield
Food, fuels, medicine, fiber, shelter, water, reproduction sites, etc
Use and value diversity
Polyculture: geese, ducks, guineas, piglets, cattles
For dynamic stability
Natural succession
follows the natural processes that have been observed within the African savannah
''First bite'' theory: in a leader-follower system, first bites get the most nutritious pasture according to their needs.
Each function is supported by many elements
weed control, pest control, fertilization services, food (to feed animals)
Use small and slow solutions
Time consideration: take into account changes in a single season and through the years
Time considerations for animas in restoration agriculture takes into account changes in the plant system within the season, but also throughout the years
Can be done with domesticated animals
Challenges
Poor management practices
Overstocking: remove more living plant matter that can regenerate before the next round (land degredation and poor health animal)
Understocking: degrade pastures, undesirable plants may proliferate & set seeds
Overgrazing: Compaction, can lead to land degradation and desertification
Predation: dealing with chiken in a leader-follower system is risky
Fences
Moving fences everyday takes a lot of time and efforts
Moveable fence need to be maintained
Winter: additional housing may be required and seperate quarters to prevent transmission of cross-species parasites, diseases or mineral toxicity
Having a large herd (numerous animals)
Animals no longer respond to their human companion, they are harder to train
Clean water available to the animals at all times
Watering tanks or troughs must be emptied and purged between species
Initial cost: the initial cost to set up a multi paddock system as well as invest in several different species of animals could be quit costly for some farmers.
Ecological Niches
"Position or role taken by an organism within its ecological community"
what resources are available in a particular location, or by what resources are there during a particular time of day or season
available niches can be more challenging when we incorporate plants and animals that move within time and space
Time Niches
More challenging to detect
some niches are thousands of years in the making
GROUP NAMES: Willem, autumn, Audrée, Sara