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    This document is the foreword to a book published by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on grasslands around the world. It notes that grasslands cover a large portion of the earth's surface and are important for livestock grazing, wildlife habitat, and environmental protection. The FAO has published many resources on grasslands over the years and works to provide information to different audiences. The present book provides an overview of grassland systems worldwide written by regional experts, and assesses the state of grasslands and their management.

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    This document is the foreword to a book published by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on grasslands around the world. It notes that grasslands cover a large portion of the earth's surface and are important for livestock grazing, wildlife habitat, and environmental protection. The FAO has published many resources on grasslands over the years and works to provide information to different audiences. The present book provides an overview of grassland systems worldwide written by regional experts, and assesses the state of grasslands and their management.

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    This document is the foreword to a book published by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on grasslands around the world. It notes that grasslands cover a large portion of the earth's surface and are important for livestock grazing, wildlife habitat, and environmental protection. The FAO has published many resources on grasslands over the years and works to provide information to different audiences. The present book provides an overview of grassland systems worldwide written by regional experts, and assesses the state of grasslands and their management.

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    Foreword

    The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has long been concerned with
    grasslands, forage crops and pastoral development issues, which have been the focus of
    various field-based activities and Regular Programme work of the Grassland and Pasture
    Crops Group within the Crop and Grassland Service.

    Grasslands cover a very large portion of the earth's surface and are important as a feed source
    for livestock, as a habitat for wildlife, for environmental protection and for the in situ
    conservation of plant genetic resources. In both developed and developing countries, many
    millions of livestock farmers, ranchers and pastoralists depend on grasslands and conserved
    products such as hay and silage and on a range of fodder crops for their livelihoods. Rapid
    increases in human and livestock populations have contributed to increased pressures on the
    world's grasslands, particularly in arid and semi-arid environments. Now more than ever,
    information is needed on the status of the world's grasslands.

    FAO, through the Grassland and Pasture Crops Group, has endeavoured over many years to
    make available information on grassland themes to a range of audiences. Earlier books
    included those of Whyte, Nillson-Leissner and Trumble (1969) on Legumes in Agriculture and
    Whyte, Moir and Cooper (1975) on Grasses in Agriculture, Tropical Grasses by Skerman &
    Riveros (1990) and Tropical Forage Legumes by Skerman, Cameron and Riveros (1988),
    Pasture - cattle - coconut systems by Reynolds (1995), with Managing Mobility in African
    Grasslands by Niamir-Fuller (1999). More recent publications have included studies on: Hay
    and Straw Conservation (Suttie, 2000); Silage in the Tropics (t'Mannetje, 2000); Grassland
    Resource Assessment (Harris, 2001); Transhumant Grazing Systems in Temperate Asia
    (Suttie & Reynolds, 2003); Know to Move, Move to Know (Schareika, 2003); Site-Specific
    Grasses and Herbs (Krautzer, Peratoner and Bozzo, 2004); Wild and Sown Grasses (Peeters,
    2004); Fodder Oats: a world overview (Suttie & Reynolds, 2004); Forage Legumes for
    Temperate Grasslands (Frame, 2005); and Grasslands: Developments, Opportunities,
    Perspectives (Reynolds & Frame, 2005). The publications are complemented by detailed
    information on grassland species and extensive Country Pasture Resource Profiles to be found
    on the FAO Grassland Web site at <http://www.fao.org/ag/grassland.htm>.

    The present book provides an overview of a range of grassland systems worldwide, with
    contributions by experts from many regions, and in a final chapter briefly assesses the state of
    the grasslands, their management, various grassland resources, the complementary roles of
    sown pastures, fodder crops and natural grasslands and concludes by looking at various social,
    economic and environmental factors. Researchers, grassland scientists and policy-makers will
    find the material useful and the book will contribute towards the accumulated knowledge on the
    world's grasslands. The contributions of authors are much appreciated by FAO in its efforts to
    disseminate information on grasslands and pastoral systems. The considerable input made by
    the editors is particularly acknowledged - retired staff member James Suttie, and Stephen
    Reynolds and Caterina Batello of the Grassland and Pasture Crops Group of the Crop and
    Grassland Service - both for their personal contributions and Stephen Reynolds and James
    Suttie for ensuring that the book was brought to publication.

    Mahmoud Solh
    Director
    Plant Production and Protection Division
    FAO Agriculture Department

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