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The University of Florida / IFAS South Florida Beef Forage Program (SFBFP) is composed of county Extension faculty and state specialists. The members, in conjunction with the UF/IFAS Program Evaluation and Organizational Development unit, created a survey in 1982, which is used to evaluate ranch management practices. The survey is updated and distributed every 5 years to ranchers in 14 South Florida counties: Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Hendry, Highlands, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Martin, Okeechobee, Polk, and Sarasota. The responses are anonymous.

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ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CLIMATE CHANGE AND PATTERNS OF FARMERS’/PASTORALISTS’ CONFLICTS IN ZAMFARA STATE, NIGERIA

FUDMA Journal of Sciences ◽

10.33003/fjs-2020-0404-436 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. 56-66

Author(s):

Olasunkanmi Gabriel Jeje ◽

B. A. Sawa ◽

Y. A. Arigbede

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Rating Scale ◽

Implementation Framework ◽

Scarce Resources ◽

Purposeful Sampling ◽

Climate Change Information ◽

Study Results ◽

Ranch Management ◽

Key Informant Interview ◽

The Relationship

Struggle over land and scarce resources have resulted in perennial and growing violent conflicts amongst arable crop farmers and cattle herdsmen in various parts of Nigeria. This study analyses the relationship between climate change and patterns of herders-crop farmers’ conflict in Zamfara state, Nigeria. Data for this study were acquired via semi structured questionnaire and Key Informant Interview. Purposeful sampling method was used to select six communities, while 260 farmers and 67 pastoralists were chosen as sample size for the survey based on Krejcie and Morgan’s formula. Descriptive statistics such as percentages, arithmetic mean and Likert rating scale were adopted to analyze the data for the study. Results from the findings indicated that farmers and herders in Zamfara state were within active years of economic and productive age (24 to 44 years). Nearly,75% of both farmers and pastoralists in the study communities professed there is high variability in rainfall pattern and increase in temperature. Three-quarter of the respondents confirmed that the nature of the conflicts was assault involving the use of arms; whereas two-fifth of the respondents affirmed that the conflict occurs during harvest and the planting seasons. The study concluded that climate change is the bane of incessant resource use conflicts in the study area. Thus a clearly formulated government policies and implementation framework that would boost climate change information forecasting and dissemination, adaptive capacity and ranch management will salvage the conflictual relationship subsisting between farmers and herders in the study area

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Game Ranch management

Koedoe ◽

10.4102/koedoe.v32i1.460 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 32 (1) ◽

Author(s):

G. De Graaff

Keyword(s):

Southern Africa ◽

Wildlife Management ◽

South Africans ◽

Intensive Research ◽

University Of Pretoria ◽

Ranch Management ◽

The University

This book is the result of six years' intensive research and brainstorming by a group of South Africans under the editorship of J. du P. Bothma, the incumbent of the Eugene Marais Chair of Wildlife Management at the University of Pretoria. The group, comprising professional botanists and zoologists, veterinarians and wildlife managers, emphasises the fact that game (in all its characteristics and attributes) is unquestionably a natural asset in many parts of southern Africa

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Viewpoint: The Need for Qualitative Research to Understand Ranch Management

Journal of Range Management ◽

10.2458/azu_jrm_v57i6_sayre ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 57 (6) ◽

Author(s):

Nathan Sayre

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Research ◽

Ranch Management

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Analysis of the Resilience of Common-Pool Resources during Globalization: The Case of Jeju Common Ranches in Korea

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su10124346 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (12) ◽

pp. 4346 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Kyungmin Kim ◽

Juhee Kim ◽

Kijong Cho ◽

Jeong-Gyu Kim ◽

Seunghun Hyun

Keyword(s):

Common Property ◽

Current Status ◽

Livestock Farming ◽

Population Number ◽

Government Grants ◽

Common Pool ◽

Forward Stepwise ◽

Ranch Management ◽

Management Ratio ◽

The Village

A common-pool resource (CPR) is a type of good consisting of a natural or human-made resource system. Jeju common ranches are historical CPRs located in Jeju Province where mid-mountainous grassland has been shared for livestock farming by the members of adjacent villages since the 10th century. Because of the recent globalization movement, the number of ranches has decreased from 126 in the 1940s to only 53 in 2015; while the majority of the ranches did not survive the transformation, others have remained active by adopting various solutions. In this study, we analyzed the administrative characteristics of the CPRs to explain their current status (i.e., extinction or continuance as a common property) using logistic regression analysis. From this analysis, four statistically meaningful variables were extracted using a forward stepwise selection method; these include the type of ranch management, ratio of land area to population, number of internal committees in the village, and number of local government grants. These variables correlate well with previously recognized ‘community resilience dimensions’ and can be used to explain the fate of the Jeju common ranches during the study period. This study elucidates what community dimensions should be fortified to promote the resilience of Jeju common ranches in order to effectively cope with the on-going effects of globalization.

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Evaluating Changes in Ranch Management Practices through Extension Education

Journal of Range Management ◽

10.2307/4002729 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 49 (1) ◽

pp. 76 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Rebecca T. Richards ◽

Melvin R. George

Keyword(s):

Management Practices ◽

Extension Education ◽

Ranch Management

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Epilogue

Paradox of Preservation ◽

10.1525/california/9780520277076.003.0010 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Laura Alice Watt ◽

David Lowenthal

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Planning Process ◽

The United States ◽

Management Plan ◽

Management Planning ◽

General Management ◽

Point Reyes ◽

Recent Developments ◽

General Management Plan ◽

Ranch Management

This epilogue tracks the more recent developments in the land use versus land preservation debate, including further controversies surrounding Point Reyes. A new lawsuit was filed against the NPS in Point Reyes, with demands that the ongoing ranch management planning process be suspended until the thirty-six-year-old PRNS General Management Plan can finally be updated with studies of the environmental impacts of grazing. Elsewhere in the United States, the chapter covers the aftermath of an armed standoff at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. However, the chapter goes on to outline more hopeful changes across the country, such as the fact that more and more people are beginning to compromise on “what a park is for.”

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Results of Beer Game Trials Played by Natural Resource Managers Versus Students: Does Age Influence Ordering Decisions?

Systems ◽

10.3390/systems8040037 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 37

Author(s):

Benjamin L. Turner ◽

Michael Goodman ◽

Rick Machen ◽

Clay Mathis ◽

Ryan Rhoades ◽

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Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Simulation Game ◽

State University ◽

Honors College ◽

Resource Managers ◽

Age Related ◽

Natural Resource Managers ◽

Ranch Management ◽

Common Learning ◽

Beer Game

Systems involving agriculture and natural resources (AGNR) management and representing integrations of biologic, geologic, socio-economic, and climatic characteristics are incredibly complex. AGNR managers purport using a systems-oriented mental model while many observed management and policy strategies remain linear or symptom-driven. To improve AGNR professionals’ systems thinking abilities, two programs, the King Ranch® Institute for Ranch Management at Texas A&M University-Kingsville (KRIRM) and the Honors College at South Dakota State University (SDSUHC), implemented the famous Production Distribution Simulation Game (a.k.a. the Beer Game) into their programs beginning in 2003 and 2011. A Beer Game database consisting of 10 years of trials or over 270 individual players was compared to seminal work in the literature as well as to one another. We found that AGNR managers and students performed worse than players in a seminal Beer Game study. More interestingly, we found that younger players adapted more readily to inventory surpluses by reducing the order rates and effective inventories significantly when compared to older players (p < 0.10 for retailer and distributors, and p < 0.05 for wholesales and factories). We substantiated our results to those in more recent studies of age-related decision-making and in the context of common learning disabilities. Lastly, we discuss some implications of such decision-making on 21st century AGNR problems and encourage AGNR disciplines to better integrate system dynamics-based education and collaboration in order to better prepare for such complex issues.

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