October 29, 2014 1 Long-term monitoring of rangelands Impacts of fire, tree cutting and livestock grazing on carbon sequestration in West Africa Jonas Koala 1,2 , Mohammed Said 2 , Louis Sawadogo 1 , Patrice Savadogo 1 , Didier Zida 1 , Ermias Aynekulu 3 and de Leeuw, Jan 3 1 Institut de l'Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles (INEREA) 2 International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), 3 World Agroforestry (ICRAF) 6 TH All Africa Conference of Animal Agriculture (AACAA), KICC, Nairobi, 27 th – 30 th October, 2014
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October 29, 2014 1
Long-term monitoring of rangelands Impacts of fire, tree cutting and livestock grazing on
carbon sequestration in West Africa
Jonas Koala1,2, Mohammed Said2, Louis Sawadogo1, Patrice Savadogo1, Didier Zida1, Ermias Aynekulu3 and de Leeuw, Jan3
1Institut de l'Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles (INEREA)
2International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), 3World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
6TH All Africa Conference of Animal Agriculture (AACAA), KICC,
Nairobi, 27th – 30th October, 2014
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Background
A critical pre-requisite to managing savanna woodland
for carbon storage and sequestration is a good
knowledge about tree and shrub biomass.
Providing accurate measurements of carbon stock is
difficult without precise measurements of biomass.