{"id":5033,"date":"2019-09-02T10:47:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T07:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5033"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","slug":"from-slim-pickings-to-greener-pastures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/02\/from-slim-pickings-to-greener-pastures\/","title":{"rendered":"From Slim Pickings To Greener Pastures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By UN\nEnvironment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walking backward, Georgina unspools a thick white ribbon in a rectangle about half the size of a soccer pitch, before planting fence posts into the thick grass and stringing up an electric fence in Ecuador\u2019s mountainous Pichincha province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fence in place,\nshe ushers her 13 prized cows into the lush, green meadow\u2014a now daily routine\nfor the 46-year-old rancher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has only managed\nher pasture this way for eight months, but the improvement in the health of\nboth her cattle and the grass they rely on has been profound since she began\nrestricting grazing areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is in contrast to\nless than a year ago, when the sparse, dry pasture had slashed her cattle\u2019s\nproductivity, forcing the family to sell part of their herd and rent additional\nland to feed those that remained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have had to make a\nlot of sacrifices. It shouldn\u2019t be this way,\u201d she says, wiping away a tear as\nshe recalls how the family struggled to pay her children\u2019s school and\nuniversity fees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But since replicating\nsustainable land management practices piloted by the Multiplying Environmental\nand Carbon Benefits in High Andean Ecosystems project, the family\u2019s situation\nhas started to improve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen an\nimprovement in our pasture and we\u2019ve learned the importance of looking at the\nwhole ecosystem\u2014maintaining the trees, and conserving the water,\u201d Georgina\nsays, showing off the rich pasture that now fills her fields. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/slim-pickings-greener-pastures\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN Environment Walking backward, Georgina unspools a thick white ribbon in a rectangle about half the size of a soccer pitch, before planting fence posts into the thick grass&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}