Utilization and Improvement of Marginal Soils Through Large Stock Grazing in Semi-Arid Summer Rainfall Areas in South Africa

The popular perception of rangeland and the management, in Sub-Saharan Africa, is mostly negative. The vast areas are seen as a problem without a solution. The common focus on the negative is overgrazing, undernourished livestock and desertification. With the world population increasing, especially in Africa, food production is a priority. With Africa having rangelands accounting for at least 65% of the surface area, this constitutes a major area for animal production. The chapter aims to alleviate the negative perceptions by adopting one of the grazing strategies, firstly by defining different grazing strategies. By the adoption of a grazing strategy the degraded rangeland can be reversed to good quality rangeland.