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A new climate for grazing livestock

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Colombia's sustainable cattle ranching programme restores degraded land while boosting livestock production and making farmland more resilient to climate change.

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Figure 2: Distribution of the world's croplands and pastures.

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  • 08 May 2014

    In the News Feature 'A new climate for grazing livestock' (Nature Climate Change 4, 321–323; 2014) Olimpo Montes's source of funding was incorrectly stated. He received a Payment of Environmental Services as compensation for changes he made as a participant in a project funded by the Global Environment Facility and administered by the World Bank. This has now been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions after print 8 May 2014.

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  1. Lisa Palmer is a freelance journalist based in Maryland, USA, and is a fellow at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), One Park Place, Suite 300, Annapolis, Maryland 21401, USA,

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Palmer, L. A new climate for grazing livestock. Nature Clim Change 4, 321–323 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2215

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