Group 3 Livestock, Rangelands and Fisheries

1. Group 3 Livestock, Rangelands and Fisheries

2. Facilitator: Mrs. TaranehEbrahimi, AARINENA-RAIS Secretary, Iran Team Members: • Mr. AdnanGibriel, ARC, Libya • Dr. Mohammad El Mourid, ICARDA, Tunis • Dr. M. Duwayri, Univ. of Ajloun, Jordan • Dr. ChristoHilan, LARI, Lebanon • Dr. SalahGalal, Ain Shams Univ., Egypt • Dr. RakhshanRoohi, PARC, Pakistan

3. Task 1

4. Key Researchable Issues • Improve local food production in environmentally challenged area (land degradation, water scarcity, desertification) • Improve livestock potential • Improve potential of fisheries and aquatic production systems • Protection of natural resources and halt rangeland degradation • Increase indigenous grass species to reduce water use of exotic species • Land degradation and desertification • Reduce over grazing to stop degradation

5. Key Researchable Issues • Improvelocal food production in environmentally challenged area (land degradation, water scarcity, desertification) • Improve livestock potential • Improve potential of fisheries and aquatic production systems • Protection of natural resources and halt rangeland degradation • Increase indigenous grass species to reduce water use of exotic species • Land degradation and desertification • Reduce over grazing to stop degradation

6. Key Researchable Issues Finalized • Enhance local feed base • Improve livestock productivity and production • Improve productivity and production of fisheries and aquaculture • Improve range management for rehabilitation and sustainable utilization • Promote and develop the native range species • Improve animal health and control diseases • Utilization and conservation of animal genetic resource • Animal nutrition • Land property rights • Value addition

7. Task 2

8. Priority Ranking Development Impact: Time frame: Farmer type(s): Very High Priority: Rank 1 Short Poor, medium, High Priority: Rank 2 Medium large and Pastoralists Medium Priority: Rank 3 Long

10. Prioritized Issues Priority 1 Enhance local feed base Improve animal health and control diseases Animal nutrition Value addition Priority 2 Improve livestock productivity and production Priority 3 Improve productivity and production of fisheries and aquaculture Improve range management for rehabilitation and sustainable utilization Priority 4 Promote and develop the native range species Utilization and conservation of animal genetic resource Priority 5 Land property rights

11. Task 3

13. Thanks