Comments on: Cows-1 Wildebeest-0 http://africaanswerman.com/?p=4181 Thu, 16 May 2013 15:45:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dan http://africaanswerman.com/?p=4181&cpage=1#comment-9103 Dan Wed, 25 May 2011 15:11:34 +0000 http://africaanswerman.com/?p=4181#comment-9103 Interesting dilemma, however if the populations in control of the cattle do not understand or have the ability to control where their cattle graze I am not sure an effective balance can be found. One answer is to improve the "cultivated" pastures to handle increased capacities so that the wilderness is not required. This however may require organizing volenteers to pull invasive species to protect the desireable species. As for the role of cattle, see below. Of course domesticated livestock are often attacked as being inefficient means of converting vegetation to human food, however until humans develop the ability to graze on dry grasslands, store generations of food that reproduces itself, and has the ability to move by its own to population centers they (livestock) may be the best bet. The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving- In the Asian, African and Latin American countries, well over 500 million people are living in what the World Bank has called "absolute poverty" The Indian subcontinent has nearly half the world's hungry people. Africa and the rest of Asia together have approximately 40%, and the remaining hungry people are found in Latin America and other parts of the world. Hunger in Global Economy Half of all children under five years of age in South Asia and one third of those in sub-Saharan Africa are malnourished It is estimated that some 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times as many as those who actually die from it each year. http://library.thinkquest.org/C002291/high/present/stats.htm Interesting dilemma, however if the populations in control of the cattle do not understand or have the ability to control where their cattle graze I am not sure an effective balance can be found. One answer is to improve the “cultivated” pastures to handle increased capacities so that the wilderness is not required. This however may require organizing volenteers to pull invasive species to protect the desireable species.

As for the role of cattle, see below. Of course domesticated livestock are often attacked as being inefficient means of converting vegetation to human food, however until humans develop the ability to graze on dry grasslands, store generations of food that reproduces itself, and has the ability to move by its own to population centers they (livestock) may be the best bet.

The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving-

In the Asian, African and Latin American countries, well over 500 million people are living in what the World Bank has called “absolute poverty”

The Indian subcontinent has nearly half the world’s hungry people. Africa and the rest of Asia together have approximately 40%, and the remaining hungry people are found in Latin America and other parts of the world. Hunger in Global Economy

Half of all children under five years of age in South Asia and one third of those in sub-Saharan Africa are malnourished

It is estimated that some 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times as many as those who actually die from it each year.

http://library.thinkquest.org/C002291/high/present/stats.htm

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