Desire for Greener Land

Human Environment
Mixed land per household
(ha)
10,000
Implementation activities, inputs and costs
Establishment activities
Land user: Individual and common small scale
land users, mainly men
Population density: < 10 persons/km 2
Annual population growth: < 0.5%
Land ownership: individual, titled
Land use rights: individual / communal
(unorganised)
Water use rights: individual / communal
(unorganised)
Relative level of wealth: poor, which
represents 20% of the total land users; 20% of
the total land area is owned by poor land users
1. Agreement between the rangelands users and the National
Office of Livestock and Pasture (OEP)
2. Identification and delimitation of the rangelands to be left
fallow.
Maintenance/recurrent activities
1. Provide subsidies for the owners
2. The owner has to guard the rested rangelands (otherwise
subsidies can be suspended)
SLM Technology: Rangeland resting, Tunisia DESIRE – WOCAT 2012
Importance of off-farm income: > 50% of all
income: off-farm incomes come from migration,
construction works, commerce, tourism sector,
administration or informal activities.
Access to service and infrastructure: low:
employment, market; moderate: health, education,
technical assistance, energy, roads & transport,
drinking water and sanitation, financial services
Market orientation: subsistence (self-supply)
Establishment inputs and costs per ha
Inputs Costs (US$) % met by
land user
Other
- social delimitation of
rested rangelands
- subsidies (animal feed
barely)
TOTAL 80 31.25
Maintenance/recurrent inputs and costs per ha per year
Inputs Costs (US$) % met by
land user
Other
- subsidies (animal feed
barely)
Technical drawing
Overgrazed (left) and rested
(right) rangelands (M. Ouessar,
2011)
TOTAL 70 0
Remarks:
The subsidies (barely) are fully provided by the government in the framework of the national strategy. The local wage rate is 10 US$/day.
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