This post continues the provision of free downloads of hard-to-obtain documents on the rangelands of Somalia.
The multi-donor Central Rangelands Development Project, the objectives of which were to improve rangeland and livestock production of Somalia’s central rangelands, ran from 1980 until 1991 when a country-wide breakdown of security brought it to a halt. It comprised three main programs: (a) Range Development, which carried out rangeland surveys and ecological studies supporting development of management plans for local pastoralist range and livestock associations; (b) Non-Formal Training, which surveyed the attitudes, practices, and needs of pastoral communities, carried out extension activities, and developed simple educational materials; and (c) Formal Training which developed a B.Sc program in Range Management at the Somali National University. (The results of research studies by students of this program are available in the Somali Journal of Range Science https://storiesofeastafrica.com/2024/06/01/digital-copies-of-publications-on-the-rangelands-of-somalia/.)
The reports below reflect activities by the CRDP’s Range Development Program.
Villagers of a local range and livestock association in Muduq Region inspecting a sand dune stabilized by plantings of live branches of commiphora trees.
Reports
- Bass & Rage – Range unit classification, fodder resources, calculating range capacity.
- Herlocker & Kuchar – Palatability ratings of range plants in Ceel Dhere and Bulo Berte districts
- Herlocker & Kuchar – Somali names and palatability ratings of plants in Ceel Dhere and Bulo Berte districts
- Herlocker – Activities, accomplishments and proposal for a future range development strategy
- Herlocker – Range management plans for range and livestock associations, Ceel Dhere District.
- Herlocker et al – Range : vegetation survey of Ceel Dhere District, Galgaduud Region. Part I – Summary
- Herlocker et al – Range survey of Ceel Dhere District. Part II – Presentation of results by range site
- Herlocker et al – Range survey of southern Ceel Bur District, Galgaduud Region
- Herlocker et al – Results of four growing seasons protection of coastal plain grassland
- Holt – Agropastoralism and desertification in Ceel Dhere district
- Holt – Results of agropastoral development program in Central Somalia 1985-1988.
- Kuchar & Gillett – The Burseraceae (Boswellia, Commiphora) of Somalia
- Kuchar & Herlocker – Somali plant names of Ceel Dhere and Bulo Berte districts
- Kuchar – List of plant species in the central rangelands of Somalia
- Kuchar – Provisional key to the plants of the central rangelands
- Kuchar – The Plants of Somalia – An overview and checklist
- Kuchar et al. – Rangelands and their condition in eastern Bulo Berte District
- Naylor & Herlocker – Criteria for range condition classification
- Naylor & Jama – Management plan, Sugule Reserve, Hobbio District
- Naylor & Jama – Range ecology of Hobbio District
Jon Herlocker provided invaluable editorial, technical and financial support.
Thanks also to Michael Madany for contributing hard copies of some of the reports