In the Middle Belt, grazing land was even more plentiful - 61 percent was grazing land, while farmland accounted for 14 percent.
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The longtime rivals have battled over grazing land and resources for decades.
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They bought 445 hectares (1,100 acres) of grazing land north of Scottsdale.
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She has mediated tribal disputes over grazing land, water and cattle raiding.
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If the grazing land is enclosed, "my fate will be migration", he said.
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Grazing land—for example, non-arable grasslands or woodlands—isn't suitable for growing food.
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They plan to use the water to turn some grazing land into vegetable plots.
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The emir has posted lookouts on grazing land to make sure farmers don't encroach.
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"If you could just reforest all the grazing land, 22017 billion hectares!" he said.
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Some of the acres destroyed were much-needed grazing land for cattle, state officials said.
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But the system is under strain, with conflicts over farming and grazing land as well as trees.
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Tanzania has over 611,200 sq km of grazing land, around 70 percent of which is in use.
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Farming bigger domesticated animals like cows, pigs, and sheep requires multiples times more water and grazing land.
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The organization said 700,000 hectares of sunflowers, cotton, and grazing land for cattle farmers are at risk.
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The manure cattle leave on grazing land also produces a lot of nitrous oxide, another powerful greenhouse gas.
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In recent months, herders searching for fresh grazing land have shot wild animals and vandalized conservancies and farms.
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Losing their grazing land has also forced some Maasai to abandon their traditional livelihood to sustain their families.
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In 2013, Grazing land decreased to 38 percent of the Middle Belt and farmland increased to 42 percent.
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I drove through a majestic forest, past miles and miles of grazing land and through small, rural towns.
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Ethiopia, long a darling of development experts, is currently causing concern: drought has led to conflict over grazing land.
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Fighting over grazing land in central Mali this year has led to massacres and the displacement of 50,000 people.
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Nowadays, it also applies to commercial acts of ecocide like clearing rain forests for grazing land and patio furniture.
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The jungle that had stood on this land was replaced by open savanna — grazing land for its 400 cattle.
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Cattle can feed on native grazing land that with good management can continue to store carbon and provide significant habitat.
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Hundreds of firefighters are battling the blaze that&aposs burning cattle-grazing land and habitat for the imperiled sage grouse.
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Farmers are pushing deeper into forests, cutting down more trees to make way for grazing land for cattle and agriculture.
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"After Tullow discovered oil, we woke up to chain-link fences all over our grazing land," said 80-year-old Kiptunoi.
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The 2006 blaze was the result of the Hammonds' attempts to protect their grazing land from a wildfire, the Oregonian reported.
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Fearing sectarian tensions and the loss of grazing land for their livestock, the villagers protested against the camp's construction last year.
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"Erdogan is watching out for his own people," said Bora Dayilar, a farmer whose grazing land was subsumed by the project.
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"We had to stop the uncontrolled sale of land in Kajiado county, because it left pastoralists with no grazing land," he said.
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As a result, sheep and goat herders have to trek higher to find grazing land and crops are much harder to cultivate.
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And in the surrounding farmland, donated bales of hay arrived by the truckload for ranchers whose cows no longer have grazing land.
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Then in 1908, Teddy Roosevelt created the National Bison Refuge out of grazing land purchased from the CSKT for $807,000 (today's dollars).
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" The land contains large amounts of oil, gas and coal, the newspaper said, "as well as grazing land valued by local ranchers.
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He can then buy food for his animals or pay a rancher for access to grazing land, without which his cows would die.
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Walden's reception was far friendlier in more GOP-leaning and more rural Prineville, set among grazing land over 23 miles to the south.
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In countries like Colombia, forests are under threat from farmers seeking grazing land and criminal gangs cutting down trees for illegal gold mining.
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As the animals were killed and people settled on the reclaimed wetlands and grazing land where the primates lived, their numbers gradually dwindled.
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The agricultural sector is being hammered by weeks of heat waves that have scorched grazing land, forcing livestock owners to kill or sell animals.
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"A house is considered a major loss, but the livelihood of most people here is the livestock, the pasture and grazing land," Miller said.
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But farmed areas also are expanding, leaving far less open grazing land available for pastoralists, and leading to herds more frequently straying into crops.
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Far from a get-rich-quick scheme, keeping goats requires upfront costs north of $100,000 for grazing land, trailers, fencing and the herd itself.
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It is not "remote" to the large human population that pushes ever deeper into central Asia's high valleys seeking grazing land for their herds.
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In Fire-Scorched Oklahoma, Help Comes One Bale at a Time (22017) Wildfires burned Oklahoma grazing land, leaving ranchers struggling to feed their cattle.
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Officials say the infestation poses a risk to food security, undermines economic growth and, if not controlled soon, exacerbate communal conflict over grazing land.
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Grazing land for cattle now stretches as far as the eye can see from the highway, destroying what used to be the mighty Amazon rainforest.
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Meanwhile, each passing day claims more grazing land that is scattering animals to other states to be fed, watered and in some cases ultimately processed.
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Cronin's allotment of grazing land was divided into eight pastures, and the North Fork of the Malheur River ran through one pasture called Mountain Unit.
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The government has come under particular scrutiny recently, as floods have killed dozens of people and a locust plague has ravished crops and grazing land.
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In North Dakota, the top spring wheat state, drought has hit ranchers as well as grain farmers, doubling hay prices as grazing land becomes scarce.
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Since cattlemen first began appearing in the West, attracted by the promise of free grazing land, access to that free land was governed mostly by custom.
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While he's up there in his cabin, he spends his time alone, leading the reindeer through their grazing land, protecting them from predators, and harvesting bulls.
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The worst drought in living memory is sweeping through Australia's east, the country's main food bowl, decimating wheat and barley crops and leaving grazing land parched.
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They were sentenced to five years' imprisonment in October 2015 for two arsons, in 2001 and 2006, involving federal grazing land for which they had leases.
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On Friday, Ms. Rinehart added further to her local bona fides as she became the sole remaining bidder for iconic Australian grazing land bigger than Portugal.
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But the lands also harbor significant amounts of oil, gas and coal that the administration hopes to develop, as well as grazing land valued by local ranchers.
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Intertribal conflicts over cattle rustling and grazing land have kept the valley bristling with internal strife for decades, passed down from generation to generation, Mr. Biwa said.
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Add another 50 km around the borders of these states and the Middle Belt accounts for almost two-thirds of the nationwide switch from grazing land to farmland.
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The deadly storm that turned Houston streets into rivers was also transforming vast swathes of grazing land into lakes, destroying crops and stranding countless cattle across southeastern Texas.
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Torrential rains that lashed the coastal city of Townsville in Queensland state this week have swept inland and flooded grazing land gripped by a severe drought for years.
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"The Hammonds are multigeneration cattle ranchers in Oregon imprisoned in connection with a fire that leaked onto a small portion of neighboring public grazing land," Ms. Sanders said.
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Plans to bury an oil pipeline in the Nebraska dirt, through hilly grazing land near the Elkhorn River and flat expanses of corn farther south, had been halted.
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The military is fighting jihadist group Boko Haram and an offshoot linked to Islamic State in the northeast, while contending with communal violence over grazing land in central states.
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USGS data reveals that almost half of the 176,000 square km that changed from grazing land to farmland from 1975 to 2013 in Nigeria was in the Middle Belt.
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That figure excludes others who were forced to leave their homes to search for grazing land or water, said Lawan Magagi, Niger's minister of humanitarian action and disaster management.
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Also, Ventura County agriculture officials say the fire consumed farms with avocados and report there also was a significant impact on local livestock operators, as grazing land was scorched.
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Increased droughts due to climate change, as well as population growth and the enclosure of public lands, have pushed many traditional nomads to move onto grazing land on private ranches.
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Each cow needs at least 10 acres of land to be healthy, Evans said, but the large herds of cattle kept by pastoralists was leading to depletion of grazing land.
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That means available grazing land in the north is diminishing at an alarming rate, said Shettima Mohammed, the Benue state secretary for the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria.
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But now a new battle is on: to preserve Colombia's forests that are under threat from farmers seeking grazing land and criminal gangs cutting down trees for illegal gold mining.
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It's an evening routine that he and other herders have repeated their whole lives, just like generations before them, moving their livestock across Nigeria in search of fresh grazing land.
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"Because the use of fire is a traditional part of tropical agriculture to clean agricultural land, grazing land, it is very difficult to stop it," Alves said in an email.
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Critics say the agency is using dry conditions as a smoke screen to shrink horse populations in response to pressure from ranchers whose livestock compete with the horses for grazing land.
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For example, agriculture experts puzzled for years over why milk production was stagnant in an area of East Africa with an abundance of grazing land and rising consumer demand, it added.
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But communal grazing land in Kajiado County, where they live, is fast vanishing, as a result of sales, division of land and rapid urbanisation, with Kenya's capital, Nairobi, not far away.
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Even the Kenyan government has gone high-tech in its fight against climate change, developing an insurance payout program for livestock herders triggered by satellite images of drought afflicted grazing land.
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He was one of the earliest researchers to tie the disappearance of the rainforest to the world's growing demand for beef and the consequent need for more grazing land for cattle.
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Authorities in Pakistan are developing more than two dozen pilot villages in Punjab, the nation's most populous province, using common lands - wasteland or grazing land - and unused public lands, Rizvi said.
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On the upper strip, where she has used manure from Maasai grazing land, the beans are ankle-high and already putting out tendrils to climb up stakes set in the ground.
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Recently, Mr. Buhari has been attacked for failing to address bloody clashes between pastoralists looking for grazing land and a growing population of farmers running out of room for their crops.
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When a mine pollutes a river, or the government shutters grazing land, or the president declares a new national monument, it begins to reshape the cultures and economies based around those places.
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"The Hammonds are multi-generation cattle ranchers in Oregon imprisoned in connection with a fire that leaked onto a small portion of neighboring public grazing land," the White House said in a statement.
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MAKURDI, Nigeria - A Reuters analysis of land use data shows how a massive expansion of farming in Nigeria's Middle Belt has cut access to grazing land for nomadic herders and fueled persistent violence.
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As the nation's population has soared and available grazing land has shrunk, farmers have settled on land that herders have used for hundreds of years as grazing routes to move their cattle seasonally.
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The analysis of data released publicly only in 2190 shows open grazing land available in Nigeria's Middle Belt declined by 2176 percent between 2000 and 21975 while the area dedicated to farming nearly trebled.
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NAIROBI, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Swarms of desert locusts have spread from Ethiopia and Somalia into eastern and northern Kenya, posing a threat to food production and grazing land, its agriculture minister said on Friday.
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Conflict over grazing land and water, chiefly between semi-nomadic Muslim herders and Christian farmers, has piled pressure on authorities already facing an Islamist insurgency in its northeast and rebels in the oil-rich south.
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For ranchers whose grazing land was destroyed by wildfires that tore across western Oklahoma this month, the cylindrical bales were an economic lifeline, a way to feed cattle marooned on grassless patches of charred red soil.
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Farmers and land rights advocates said the shrinking of available grazing land around Isiolo only fuels ongoing conflicts between various tribes that go back generations, as each lays historical claim to the land bordering the county.
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But just about every acre set aside for a wildlife reserve takes an acre of potential farmland or grazing land off the table (some wildlife refuges tolerate grazing, but it often gets quickly out of control).
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Dozens were killed and injured in Kenya's drought-stricken Laikipia region last year as armed herders searching for scarce grazing land drove tens of thousands of cattle onto private farms and ranches from poor-quality communal land.
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The growth of cut flower farms has intensified competition for dwindling grazing land and vanishing water supplies for the herdsmen whose traditional grazing grounds between Lake Naivasha and Mount Longonot have shrunk as the industry has expanded.
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If this park actually gets built, it would be a huge loss of grazing land for us, and young people who'd still be interested in reindeer farming might lose hope that there's a future in the tradition.
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But with the petroleum sector historically causing a loss of grazing land, soil and water contamination as well as other health risks in and around oil-producing areas, the government wants to strengthen enforcement and regulatory oversight.
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He said that Beyond Meat is currently exploring ways to team with growers of cattle grazing land to see how some of that acreage can be used to produce the legumes that the company uses in its foods.
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The study examined the three types of land use that define modern agriculture: land used for growing crops, land used for perennial forage crops such as hay and grain that could be used to feed livestock, and grazing land.
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Lined with river red gums, the Darling also waters some of Australia's richest grazing land, and until the construction of railways in the early 20th century, was the main route used to take wool and other goods to market.
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Coal from the mine would be transported by rail about 240 miles through grazing land to Abbot Point, the nation's most northern deep water coal port, which is already used to ship coal to China, Japan and South Korea.
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In Latin America, where many countries are threatened by hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, wildfires and volcanic eruptions, farmers should identify evacuation routes for their animals, as well as emergency feed sources such as rented grazing land, said Murillo of World Animal Protection.
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A wave of violence has hit Kenya's drought-stricken Laikipia region in recent months as armed cattle-herders searching for scarce grazing land have driven tens of thousands of cattle onto private farms and ranches from poor quality communal land.
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As drought and a boom in housing development eat away at available grazing land, the number of Maasai herders taking up crop farming has grown by 40% over the past decade, said current county committee member for agriculture Jackline Koin.
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ABBOT POINT, Australia — In a desolate corner of northeastern Australia, about 22016 miles from the nearest town, a grassy stretch of prime grazing land sits above a vein of coal so rich and deep that it could be mined for decades.
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" Lincoln Muniz Alves, a researcher at Brazil's Space Research Center's Earth System Science Center, previously told CNN that man-made fires can be difficult to stop, because fire is "a traditional part of tropical agriculture to clean agricultural land, grazing land.
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Not only that, but he or she must also be a capable butcher for the daily harvest and be able to train new workers, as well as deal appropriately with other hunters, trappers, tourists, and anyone else encountered on the winter grazing land.
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While herders are often portrayed as straying onto farmland, it is farmers who first encroached onto the nomads' grazing land, said Benjamin Mutambukah, coordinator of the Coalition of Pastoralist Civil Society Organisations (COPACSO) and a passionate advocate of the herders in Uganda.
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Flames the size of a four-story building torched nearly 625 square miles (1,619 square kilometers) of cattle-grazing land and habitat for the imperiled sage grouse near the border with Oregon and Idaho, said Norm Rooker with the fire&aposs incident management team.
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"The options with medium to large benefits for all challenges are increased food productivity, improved cropland management, improved grazing land management, improved livestock management, agroforestry, improved forest management, increased soil organic carbon content, fire management, and reduced post-harvest losses," according to the report.
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Animal agriculture is a primary cause of global depletion: rainforests that are destroyed to create grazing land for cattle; wild animals that are killed at the behest of private ranchers; an inordinate amount of resources that are used to breed, keep and kill animals.
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In Brazil, which has suffered a funding shortfall for green action, the Climate Smart Cattle Ranching scheme is seeking to raise $200 million for projects designed to restore damaged grazing land and reduce deforestation in the Amazon, targeting more than 300,000 hectares in the first five years.
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I'm glad that Caliper made a solid watch for a low price and added a feature that will help you convince the Goat Herders to join your war against the Trash Picksters by telling them exactly how much grazing land they will get if they burn the Pickster's middens to the ground.
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Last week, in Elko, Nevada, at a board meeting of the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board—a nine-member group that makes recommendations to the US Bureau of Land Management—a vote was taken about a surplus of wild horses that were relocated to holding facilities to make way for additional grazing land for cattle.
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